A drama manager is an omniscient agent responsible for guiding players through the story space and delivering an enjoyable experience to the players. Most drama managers only consider the designer’s intent. We present a drama manager that can provide personalized guidance while giving players the appearance of full agency. Our system is evaluated on an interactive storytelling game built with C...

This essay will explore Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Christology as performance from below. It begin by introducing theodramatic project presented in his five-volume work Theo-drama. Here, it be shown how Balthasar engages with and uses the conceptual resources of drama theatre to develop a theological dramatic theory Christ at its very centre. followed an investigation into what he saw re-performa...

Analysis of Symbolic Meaning in Drama Scripts and Its Implications toward Indonesian Language Learning High School Students. Objective: This study aims to describe the symbolic meaning drama script its implications for learning class X students. Methods: The analysis uses eclectic method Semiotics perspective Charles Sanders Pierce. Findings: results indicate that there is a shows shift type le...

The article proposes a theoretical framework in which moral reasoning about mediated crime and punishment is defined and combined with existing, affect-driven entertainment theory to yield an integrated theory of enjoyment. The authors analyze how crime dramas serve as statements about justice and then address how moral deliberation about the propriety of those statements impacts enjoyment. The...

In interactive drama, whether for entertainment or training purposes, there is a need to balance the enforcement of authorial intent with player autonomy. A promising approach to this problem is the incorporation of an intelligent Drama Manager (DM) into the simulated environment. The DM can intervene in the story as it progresses in order to (more or less gently) guide the player in an appropr...

In interactive storytelling systems and other story-based computer games, a drama manager is a background agent that aims to bring about an enjoyable and coherent experience for the players. In this paper, we present a personalized drama manager that increases a player’s expected enjoyment without removing player agency. Our personalized drama manager models a player’s preference using data-dri...

3 variables drawn from role theory were investigated as predictors of hypnotic responsiveness: congruence of self and role (assessed by questionnaire); role expectations (assessed by questionnaire); and role-taking aptitude (drama students vs. science students). 168 Ss (78 drama students, 91 science students) were administered the 2 questionnaires and the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Suscept...

Substantial research effort has been put into creating a truly interactive drama that is not only entertaining but also gives the player a sense of coherency and that she is an active participant in the unfolding drama. A fully interactive drama has the potential of revolutionising entertainment, gaming, education, therapy and news coverage. If pre-authored stories are directly implemented into...

This study aims to design a new kind of interactive drama, where the user interacts in depth with the course of the narrative, while the dramatic intensity is retained. Based on various theoretical sources on narrative and drama, a model is put forward. This model is used to build a computer system of interactive drama.