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Multiplayer capable
environment |
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Dialog system allows
easy interaction with NPCs |
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Each NPC is controlled
by iGEN®-NPC Intelligent Agent |
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iGEN®
Tutor monitors the game |
The VECTOR environment is built using iGEN®,
iGEN®-NPC
and
the LithTech Jupiter Game Engine, which has been used to develop such commercial
PC games as “Tron 2.0” and “No One Lives Forever 2”. The Jupiter game
engine is based on a server/client architecture where the server-side manages
the game and communicates to all connected clients as to the current state of
the game (ie, player positions, etc) and the client-side is used to display the
game to the user and interact with the user (ie, player controls, interactions
with other players or NPCs).
In
VECTOR, all NPCs are created and controlled on the server-side. When the game is
initialized, each NPC is created and linked up to an iGEN®-NPC intelligent agent. The
iGEN®-NPC
intelligent agent controls that NPC’s movement, dialog, and emotional
state. VECTOR currently has nine such NPCs. In addition to the iGEN®-NPC
intelligent
agents that are controlling the NPCs, there is also another iGEN®
intelligent
agent tutor connected directly to the server which monitors what the trainee is
doing. There is also a speech recognition system that is linked to the clients,
which is used by the trainee to interact with NPCs in the game. |
