1. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIO Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Games UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering michaelm@cs.ucsc.edu 12 October 2007 Michael Mateas

2. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Game AI : The future of games  As a new medium games are still in their infancy, focused predominantly on physical action  Artificial Intelligence enables games that…  Comment on the full range of human experience through playable simulations of people and social situations  Deeply respond to interaction  Radically customize themselves to individual players

3. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Return of the King

4. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ American Beauty?

5. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Need story and character AI Plot structure Tension/Complexity Time Exposition Inciting incident Rising action Crisis Climax Falling action Denouement Characters Personality Emotion Self motivation Change Social relationships Consistency Illusion of life

6. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Façade

7. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Façade architecture Drama Manager (sequences beats) Bag of beats beat Desired value arc(s) Selected beat History time Previous action beat Activity not part of a beat Current story values Player Story World Trip Grace Recognizers Natural Language Processing surface text discourse acts reactions ABL agents

8. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Applications  New art and entertainment form  Interpersonal skills training  Bedside manner (medical)  Management people skills  Personal relationships  Peacekeeping (“soft” military operations)

9. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Some projects in EIS  ABL/Wargus: real-time strategy game  Drama Management: automated story management for games  Collapsed Structure Training Game  Game Generation: automatic generation of games  AR-Façade: Augmented-reality version of Façade

10. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Collapsed Structure Rescue Working with NASA Ames (DART) AI research: dynamically generating new training scenarios

11. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Drama management  Policy for “story piece” selection  An alternative to explicitly coded links Story library Selection policy Actual sequence

12. EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIOUC SANTA CRUZ Expressive AI: AI as a medium Office Plant #1Terminal TimeFaçade