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Revision as of 08:07, 30 July 2014
The ability of agents to gives responses that can be interpreted in two or more ways.
Conversations in games between agents in games consist of utterances and responses to these utterances. When the responses can be interpreted to mean two or more different things, the game has Ambiguous Responses.
Note: Gamers have discusses Ambiguous Responses is relation to dialogues in games such as the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series but this has been related to that the options players are provided with are ambiguous, i.e. they may seem to indicate that the player character will act in a certain way but when the option is chosen he or she performs in another way.
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Examples
As a currently Speculative Pattern, no examples are listen here.
Using the pattern
Creating Ambiguous Responses, or the possibility for it, in a game depend mainly on how to modify the Information Passing that occurs in it. Naturally, free-text communication between humans, e.g. through Chat Channels, makes the presence of Ambiguous Responses possible but does not guarantee that it occurs. Dialogues, being more structured, can enforce that at least some options are Ambiguous Responses both from Player Characters and Non-Player Characters but making all options such for players can remove the sense of Freedom of Choice for players.
Allowing Algorithmic Agents to provide Ambiguous Responses is another possibility, but unless their options in Dialogues are tagged as ambiguous it can require significant development of AI systems to make them able to provide intentional ones. ELIZA shows another design strategy for ambiguous Algorithmic Agents where all responses possible are precisely ambiguous and the [[Algorithmic Agents|Algorithmic Agent has no internal model of what the meaning of the conversation is.
Interface Aspects
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Narrative Aspects
Ambiguous Responses is one of the prime vehicles for setting up the misunderstandings in comedies of errors[1]. As such, the pattern can be used to create certain blocks in Predetermined Story Structures.
Consequences
Ambiguous Responses basically adds Uncertainty of Information to Information Passing. In doing so it can create Tension as players can be unsure of the actual meaning of a response.
Relations
Can Instantiate
Predetermined Story Structures, Tension, Uncertainty of Information
Can Modulate
Algorithmic Agents, Information Passing
Can Be Instantiated By
Can Be Modulated By
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Possible Closure Effects
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Potentially Conflicting With
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History
A rewrite of a pattern that was part of the original collection in the paper Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters[2].
References
- ↑ Wikipedia entry for the concept of Comedy of errors.
- ↑ Lankoski, P. & Björk, S. (2007) Gameplay Design Patterns for Believable Non-Player Characters. Proceedings of DiGRA 2007.
