Nathan Dewell is currently an assistant lecturer in Computer Games Technology in the Centre of Digital Media Technology in the School of Computing and Digital Technology of Birmingham City University. He currently leads on the “3D Game Programming” and “Game Asset Pipeline” modules. Nathan found his passion for developing and publishing video games for both web and mobile platforms. Since being hired in his current role Nathan has begun to widen his skillset into areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Project Management and 3D modelling. Nathan revels in being able to make software and video game development as simple as possible by utilizing modern software and techniques to breakdown the barriers that would typically stop a person from entering this discipline.
Nathan Dewell
Birmingham City University
All Sessions by Nathan Dewell
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2. Game Technology Summit
July 8
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15:15
A Framework for Interactive, Autonomous and Semantic Dialogue Generation in Games
15:15 - 15:45Immersive virtual environments provide users with the opportunity to escape from the real world, but scripted dialogues can disrupt the presence within the world the user is trying to escape within. Both Non-Playable Character (NPC) to Player and NPC to NPC dialogue can be non-natural and the reliance on responding with pre-defined dialogue does not always meet the players emotional expectations or provide responses appropriate to the given context or world states. This paper investigates the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing to generate dynamic human-like responses within a themed virtual world. Each thematic has been analysed against human-generated responses for the same seed and demonstrates invariance of rating across a range of model sizes, but shows an effect of theme and the size of the corpus used for fine-tuning the context for the game world.