Role-Play Virtual Character (T3 Sample Clauses

Role-Play Virtual Character (T3. This asset, along with the related Emotional Appraisal (EA) and Emotion Decision Making (EDM) assets, is used to model the emotional state and decision making of NPCs based upon their known knowledge, referred to as ‘beliefs’. The Role-Play Character (RPC) asset is used to facilitate communication between the above assets and can also include the use of the Social Importance (SI) asset, although this is currently unused within Sports Team Manager. The Emotional Appraisal asset takes in events, usually based on input from the player, to update the emotional state of NPC team members. This effect on the emotional state is based on the current state of the NPC, the emotional weighting of the event and the valence of emotions this produces. In turn, the product of all the emotional states creates a mood value for the NPC, with this value used to decide which facial expression are displayed in-game. The Emotional Decision Making asset, meanwhile, can be used to calculate the reaction of NPC to events (such as the next dialogue state to move into), without any direct impact on their emotional state. In addition to this, the Emotional Appraisal asset is also used to store the ‘beliefs’ of every NPCs and save these beliefs over multiple play sessions. For NPCs, these beliefs are made up of information such as their last position in the team, skill ratings, opinion ratings and event states. An Emotional Appraisal file is also created for the players’ in-game manager character, which stores information such as current boat type, team colours and team allowance amount. Furthermore, events sent to characters are saved, meaning a history of events can be preserved. This allows a history of every team selection to be stored within the file for the manager. As all of this information is stored regularly, it can be also be reloaded in further play sessions, allowing for the possibility of a persistent game.