The Thing Growing: Autonomous Characters in Virtual Reality Interactive Fiction

  • Authors:
  • Josephine Anstey;Dave Pape;Dan Sandin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VR '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 Conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes "The Thing Growing", a work of Interactive Fiction implemented in virtual reality, in which the user is the main protagonist and interacts with computer-controlled characters. This work of fiction depends on the user's emotional investment in the story and on her relationship to a central character, the Thing.