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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Contextually Dynamic Quest Generation Using In-Session Player Information in MMORPG

Lin, Shangwei 01 June 2023 (has links) (PDF)
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are one of the most popular genres in video games that combine massively multiplayer online genres with role-playing gameplay. MMORPGs’ featured social interaction and forms of level pro- gression through quest completion are the core for gaining players’ attention. Varied and challenging quests play an essential part in retaining that attention. However, well-crafted content takes much longer to develop with human efforts than it does to consume, and the dominant procedural content generation models for quests suffer from the drawback of being incompatible with dynamic world changes and the feeling of repetition over time. The proposed solution is to dynamically generate contextu- ally relevant quests with real-time information collected from the players. This thesis is to show that it is possible to generate contextually dynamic quests that could fit into the background story with only the information gathered from the players in real-time. To validate the proposed solution, a text-based MMO scenario is generated from the Panoptyk Engine, an information-driven game engine designed to run massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) without the distinction between NPCs and human players. The engine is intended to serve as a platform for simulating human/robot interaction. In this case, a quest simulation is built where quests are given by the NPC faction leaders utilizing the information gathered through ongoing events; players or robots belonging to certain factions will be taking and completing the quests. ivThe results of the 14-person survey showed some successes and some limitations. There was strong agreement in players understanding of what the quest was asking for, quests were related to other agents the player had seen in the world, quests involved agents that the player had interactions with, quests were related to things happening in the game world, quests were interesting. There was regular agreement on players understanding of quests that were designed entirely before the player started playing, quests were generated using a basic template with details filled in based on the player’s actions, and quests were dynamically generated. It was inconclusive with players understanding of quest motivation and previous quests the player had completed having an impact on the next quests.

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