A Generic Planning Algorithm for craftworker NPCs
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A Generic Planning Algorithm for craftworker NPCs
Preamble
The Great Game requires a number of different crafts to be performed, both because the economy depends on the products of those crafts and to provide verisimilitude and set dressing. Some of those crafts, the relations between them, and the progression within them are set out in Populating a game world.
For the purposes of planning work, only Master craftspeople are considered.
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If the Gossip system is ever to be deployed in practice at all, it will need to be deployed as a library add-on to someone else’s game, since in practice The Great Game will never be even nearly finished. The game engine already knows many of the things the Gossip system needs to know; that we need to define is an interface which allows Gossip, considered as a subsystem, to query the game engine.
My preference is still that Gossip should be written in a Lisp-like language - and, for now, in Clojure - simply because that is most comfortable to me. It needs bidirectional socket communication with the game engine, over which it sends either extensible data notation or JavaScript Object Notation, with a preference for the former.
Tracking what happens in the world
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What is Appraisal
There’s an thing that all non player characters can do, which varies greatly from person to person, and which is of particular importance to merchants, and that is appraisal.
Each category of goods has different dimensions of quality. A sword may be evaluated, for example, on
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Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Devorgilla’s Bridge in Dumfries, early fourteenth century. This clearly shows how a genetic buildings approach to bridges can be made to work: a single element is repeated to span the necessary distance. That element can be stretched vertically and laterally to match the location, and can be rendered in different stone finishes to match local geology.
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The motivation for this document was to explain the mulberry trees in the Tcha valley, and think about why Tchahua is especially a centre for the silk trade
Broader geography
The broader geography of the world is not a matter for this document, but TODO: there isn’t yet a document which usefully describes it, and there needs to be.
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Canonical dictionary for this documentation
Where a word is used in the documentation for The Great Game and its related projects, this file describes the canonical meaning of that word. This is because a lot of the concepts in play are messy and ambiguous, so that at times even I am confused by what I mean. The presence of this file is an acknowledment of this difficulty, and an implicit admission that not all the documentation is, at this stage anyway, consistent.
Actor
An actor is a thing which performs actions within the game world. Thus a tree is (almost certainly) not an actor, and things like sheep and rabbits that run about are probably not actors, but an animal which may pro-actively interact with the player character (such as a predator, or a beast of burden, or even a prey species which may flee) is an actor. In god mode, if implemented, the player can inhabit any actor within the game world.
innkeepers (and possibly some others) are gossips who do not move; rather, they gather information from gossips who do move, and all non-player characters local to the are deemed to know everything that their local innkeeper knows;merchants (and possibly some others) are gossips who do move from place to place, and thus transfer news.See the spread of knowledge in a large game world.
+See the spread of knowledge in a large game world.
Heightmap
A heightmap is a raster image of the world, such that the intensity in which an area is coloured represents the value of some variable, by default height, of that area.
Holding
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An alternative nomentclature I may use for this dichotomy would be planner and performer; it would be the same dichotomy. ‘Planner’ and ‘server’ are synonyms; ‘performer’ and ‘client’ are synonyms.
What do I mean by the ‘server’?
There is something which manages game state and things like the gossip network, merchant network, and major world events. This something is almost certainly written in some form of Lisp; I’d prefer Clojure but I don’t think it’s performant enough so probably Common Lisp. This means that it has inevitable pauses for garbage collection. Underneath this is a database which handles persistent storage of game state, which is probably an SQL database and quite likely SQLite.
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First, a framing disclaimer: in Racundra’s First Cruise, Arthur Ransome describes coming across a half built — and by the time he saw it, already obsolete — wooden sailing ship, in a Baltic forest. An old man was building it, by himself. He had been building it since he had been a young man. It’s clear that Ransome believed the ship would never be finished. It’s not clear whether the old man believed that it would, but nevertheless he was building it.
I will never build a complete version of The Great Game; it will probably never even be a playable prototype. It is a minor side-project of someone who
-
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+Building selection based on location
+The objective of this note is to create a landscape with varied and believable buildings, with the minimum possible data storage per instance.
+Like plants, buildings will ‘grow’ from a seed which has northing and easting attributes. These locate a position on the map. Again, like trees, some aspects of the building type selector are location based. Aspects of the location which are relevant to building type are
+-
+
- elevation — derived from the map location by interpolation from grid. The actual interpolation algorithm is probably some form of spline, but in any case it’s the same one as for everything else. +
- orientation of slope — derived by taking altitude at four corners of a 100 metre square centred on the seed point, and then taking the highest and lowest of these. If highest is northwest, lowest is southeast, the slope is considered to be oriented southeast; if highest is northwest and lowest southwest, the orientation is considered to be south, and so on. Eight orientation values are sufficient. +
- gradient of slope — derived from the difference in altitude across the same 100 metre square +
- neighbours — number of other buildings in 500 metre square centred on seed point. +
The reason orientation is relevant is exactly the same as the reason it’s relevant to trees. West facing slopes are assumed wetter (coriolis winds), so grow trees better, so better availability of better quality timber, so a higher probability of timber as a primary building material. But also, in areas of higher rainfall, rain shedding is an important consideration, so a higher value is placed on pitched roofs.
+So you have the following general relationships
+-
+
- west (or southwest or northwest) facing, moderate gradient, moderate altitude: high probability of timber construction; construction techniques involving large timbers (e.g. cruck frame); greater probability of shingled roofs; +
- west (or southwest or northwest) facing, moderate gradient, higher altitude or northern latitude: high probability of building styles adapted to straight-trunk conifers, e.g. log cabins, stave buildings; greater probability of shingled roofs; +
- east facing, generally: greater probability of flat roofs; +
- steeper gradients: greater probability of stone buildings (steeper gradients = shallower topsoil and greater ease of quarrying = access to stone); greater probability of slate roofs; +
- shallower gradients: greater probability of mud, cobb, brick or wattle-and-daub as building materials; greater probability of thatch or turf roofs; +
- Higher number of neighbours: higher probability of two or more stories; +
These factors allow classes of building to be selected. Having got past that point, we need to consider how classes of genetic building can work.
+Rectangular genetic buildings
+Some genetic buildings will have cells with rectangular plan. This doesn’t mean that genetic buildings are required to have rectangular cells, but they provide a starting point for discussion. For a given class of building (for example, timber frame), a number of prototype models of cells exist. These models are fully realised three dimensional models. Possibly all cells belonging to the building class have two open ends, and end walls exist as separate models; equally possibly, some cells have only one extensible end. In any case, a building will not normally comprise a single cell. Normally it will comprise multiple cells. So the cells belonging to a particular building class will be designed to ‘plug together’. Multi story building classes will have some cells which are specifically ground floor only (flat ceiling, no roof), and such cells will always have an upper floor cell added above them. Where an upper floor cell has an outside door, an outside stair will automatically be added.
+Cell mutability
+Although cell models are repeatedly reused they don’t have to look the same every time they are reused. Within limits, every cell can be stretched along any of its three axes. Obviously, the degree of stretch on a given axis for every cell in a given building must be the same, otherwise they won’t line up. Another mutable area is skinning — it may be possible to have alternate skins for cells, and even if there are not alternate skins, it will be possible to mutably darken, lighten or otherwise tint the skins used, within ranges which are appropriate to the materials represented. Obviously there are limits to stretching — timber comes in only such a length, stone lintels will only support such a span.
+Functional cells
+Some trade functions require cells of particular kinds. Thus a smith needs a working building with one cell which is explicitly a forge. A water mill must have one cell which explicitly houses the mill gear. A forge cell or a waterwheel cell should never appear in weavers workshop. But most cells are not dedicated in this way. A bedroom cell is a bedroom cell, more or less; wealth may alter how it is furnished, but it may appear in any dwelling. Similarly, except for the very wealthy, a living cell is pretty much a living cell. And any building may incorporate a storage cell. If a given building class has twelve distinct ‘generic’ cells’ and half a dozen distinct functional cells, and if buildings in the class average four cells each, then ignoring variance caused by skin mutability, a street of fifty buildings could have every one different.
+Reproducibility
+It’s critical that if a player visits a location, leaves it, and then returns, the buildings should not all have changed. So it must be possible to repeatedly reproduce the building at the location (this, of course, applies to other procedural scene dressing, such as trees, roads, boundaries, bridges and so on). This is possible if a deterministic random number generator is used which is seeded from the latitude and longitude attributes of the location. Other attributes which should be cached on the seed even though they are determined procedurally when the building is first instantiated include building class, purpose, and wealth. Using these attributes and the deterministic random number generator, the same building can be reproduced on the same site each time it is visited, with a very small amount of data stored.
+Buildings will normally be built at the edge of the associated land holding. If an edge of the land holding adjoins a road, then the building will be built with one long side aligned to the road. Otherwise, the building will be built at right angles to the orientation of the slope. The orientation will be ‘frozen’ once the building has been instantiated and will be cached on the seed.
+So, to build a building, use the following algorithm:
+Seed the random number generator with latitude and longitude
+
+while ( building value is less than wealth) { + select a cell selected from the building class using the next number from the random number generator modulo the number of generic cells in the class; + if the selected cell is not inappropriate to the building's function { + fit the cell to the building at the point determined by a deterministic algorithm + furnish cell using the random number generator to determine + furnishing types and locations from a selection appropriate to the cell + if the selected cell was not a top story cell { + add a requirement that the next cell selected must be an upper story cell} + } +} +Gossip, scripted plot, and Johnny Silverhand Generated by Codox
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I’ve been writing literally for years — since Voice acting considered harmful in 2015 — about game worlds in which the player speaks to non-player characters just by speaking the words they choose in their normal voice, and the non-player character replies using a pipeline that goes, essentially,
- Alexa/Siri style speech interpretation; diff --git a/docs/codox/MVP-Roadmap.html b/docs/codox/MVP-Roadmap.html index b9a73b7..25bb614 100644 --- a/docs/codox/MVP-Roadmap.html +++ b/docs/codox/MVP-Roadmap.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -
- Sex as part of a religious or other ritual event — this is related to, and is, sex as conscious performance, but the purpose of the performance is symbolic and/or sacramental. This doesn’t mean it is not eroticised, but it may not be eroticised.
- Long term relationship
+
-
+
- Her life goal is
:ancestor;
+ - His life goal is either
:ancestoror:citizen;
+ - Her attitude towards him is +2 or above; +
- They reside in the same dwelling, or one or other of them is of no fixed abode (in which case they will reside in the same dwelling); +
- All other levels in her hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - Her life goal is
- Passion
+
-
+
- His attitude towards her is +4, and +
- Her attitude towards him is also +4; +
- All other levels in her hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - Social climbing
+
-
+
- Her life goal is
:climberand
+ - His social rank is two or more higher than hers (counting
:bonnet-lairdas above:master);
+ - All other levels in her hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - Her life goal is
- Transactional
+
-
+
- Need
+
-
+
- She is hungry and broke; and +
- He has surplus food and/or money. +
+ - Coercion
+
-
+
- He has something she urgently wants (the example I’m thinking of is he has abducted a child); +
+ - Sex work
+
-
+
- Her life goal is
:hoarder, and he has surplus money; or
+ - It’s possible I make sex work an actual career choice – a craft of its own. +
+ - Her life goal is
+ - Need
+
- Rape
+
-
+
- If she is a slave and he is her owner; +
- If he has defeated her in a fight; +
- If she assesses that he will defeat her in an impending fight; +
- Possibly, to distrct him from doing worse things to people she is protecting (e.g. children) +
+ - Ancestor
+
-
+
- His life goal is
:ancestor; and
+ - His attitude towards her is +2 or above; +
- All other levels in his hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - His life goal is
- Long term relationship
+
-
+
- His life goal is
:ancestoror:citizen;
+ - Her life goal is
:ancestoror:citizen;
+ - His attitude towards her is +2 or above; +
- They reside in the same dwelling, or one or other of them is of no fixed abode (in which case they will reside in the same dwelling); +
- All other levels in his hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - His life goal is
- Dynastic
+
-
+
- His life goal is
:conqueror; and
+ - Her social rank is
:aristonor above;
+ - She has no other existing long term sexual relationship; +
- All other levels in his hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - His life goal is
- Social climbing
+
-
+
- His life goal is
:climber; and
+ - Her social rank is at least one higher than his; +
- All other levels in his hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - His life goal is
- Casual
+
-
+
- His attitude towards her is +1 or above; +
- All other levels in his hierarchy of needs are currently satisfied. +
+ - Kill quests @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
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Minimum Viable Product, and a road map
Right, I’m bogged down thinking about the immensity of what I want to build, so I’m achieving nothing. So the first thing I need to state is what the Minimum Viable Product is, and the second is to outline a rough road map which takes us forwards a few steps from the MVP.
The core idea here is to have a game world in which you can just say anything you like to game characters, and they can say sensible things back.
But actually, I know that speech to text can be reasonably effectively done; and I believe with a slightly lower degree of confidence that text to convincing speech can also be done.
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Background
The Great Game exists as a project on two levels. One one level, it’s a framework for building algorithms to build much more vibrant, and thus enjoyable game worlds; at another level, it’s about building a particular world, in which I want to tell stories.
-The world in which I want to tell stories is a world which is based roughly on late bronze age to medieval Europe. It’s a world in which the region known as ‘The Coast’ – the southern littoral of the continent – had been a mostly-peaceful matrideic dispersed agrarian tribal society, which had been invaded some hundreds of years past by a warrior tribe with substantially better military technology.
+The world in which I want to tell stories is a world which is based roughly on late bronze age to medieval Europe. It’s a world in which the region known as ‘The Coast’ — the southern littoral of the continent — had been a mostly-peaceful matrideic dispersed agrarian tribal society, which had been invaded some hundreds of years past by a warrior tribe with substantially better military technology.
These warrior tribesmen have settled down as local tyrants or robber barons, parasitising on the indigenous communities, and have evolved into an aristocratic (‘Ariston’) class. In the meantime, a mercantile class has grown up and established important long distance overland trade routes; and significant towns (called ‘cities’, but of only at most a few tens of thousand inhabitants) have grown up around markets.
These mercantile cities have been under the governance of powerful aristons known as tyrranoi, and the cities under their tyrranoi have competed militarily as well as commercially for control of strategic features on trade routes, such as bridges, fords, oases, mountain passes, and so on.
In the very earliest days of the warrior invasion, the warriors themselves fought against the indigenous peoples, who had very limited military equipment and tactics. Later, as they settled into Aristons, they fought by leading feudal levies of partially-trained peasants. Over the past hundred years or so, mercenary companies have emerged of specialist, trained warriors, and because these have more fighting experience (and often better equipment) they tend to beat feudal levies. These mercenary companies are base loosely on the condottierri of fourteenth century Italy.
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+In a dynamic pre-firearms world with many small states and contested regions, trade is not going to be straightforward. Not only will different routes have different physical characteristics - more or less mountainous, more or fewer unbridged river crossings - they will also have different political characteristics: more of less taxed, more or less effectively policed.
+Raids by outlaws are expected to be part of the game economy. News of raids are the sort of things which may propagate through the gossip system. So are changes in taxation regime. Obviously, knowledge items can affect merchants’ trading strategy; in existing prototype code, individual merchants already each keep their own cache of known historical prices, and exchange historical price data with one another; and use this price data to select trades to make.
+So: to what extent is it worth modelling the spread of knowledge of trade cost and risk?
+Obviously the more we model, the more compute power modelling consumes. If the core objective is a Role Playing Games as currently understood, then there is no need to model very complex trade risk assessment behaviour.
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# Not my problem
Introduction
This document is essentially a catalogue of side-tracks which I do not have to go down when implementing The Great Game. Solved problems; or problems which are common to many other games, so if I don’t solve them someone else will. The object of doing this is to work down to a constrained set of problems which are genuinely things I’m trying to innovate, which I should focus on; which essentially come down to
-
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On Sex, and Sexual Violence, in Games
For me the purpose of games is to provide worlds in which players can explore moral actions, and the consequences of moral actions. Sexual violence is something that happens in the real world, and which happens, even within the real world, more frequently in areas of poor governance and open conflict; and those are areas in which there are important moral actions, and important moral consequences, so they are areas in which it is interesting to set games.
It would be ludicrous to argue ‘sexual violence is wrong, therefore we should not represent it in games.’ Killing people is also wrong, yet it is extremely common in games. However, sexual violence — and in particular the representation of sexual violence — does pose some specific problems that need to be addressed.
Firstly, sexual violence is extremely gendered. Yes, male people are sometimes subjected to sexual violence, but nevertheless the overwhelming majority of victims of sexual violence are female. Yes, female people are sometimes — extraordinarily rarely, but sometimes — perpetrators of sexual violence, but nevertheless perpetrators of sexual violence are almost exclusively male.
@@ -24,6 +24,107 @@By ‘eroticised’, I’m meaning deliberately intended to trigger sexual feelings in the audience — which, if the player character is present, includes the player.
+Breeding strategies for non-player characters
+In order to model population growth, I need to model when two NPCs will have sex; I need to model (roughly) when two NPCs will choose to have sex.
+This is different for female NPCs to male NPCs (and female NPCs will be much more cautious, because of the risk/cost of pregnancy), so let’s consider each in turn.
+Note that sex happens if and only if the conditions for both the female partner and the male partner are met.
+Note that we’re considering heterosexual sex only here because what I’m currently modelling is population growth, and only heterosexual sex leads to pregnancy.
+Generalised breeding strategy for a female NPC
+A female NPC will have sex with a male NPC:
+-
+
Generalised breeding strategy for a male NPC
+-
+
Sexual violence between non-player characters
In a world in which there are characters who are thuggish, who seek to dominate, terrorise and subdue other characters, whether those characters are outlaws or soldiers or aristocrats, to pretend that rape would not be used as a means to dominate, terrorise or subdue is… bowdlerisation. It’s unrealistic, and it’s a morally indefensible choice.
So there has to be a mechanism for non-player characters to decide to commit acts of sexual violence towards other non-player characters. The player must at least hear of such events through the gossip network, and should be able to find the specific non-player characters involved, and speak to them. Whether it’s necessary to portray acts of sexual violence on screen is something I’m much less persuaded by, simply because it runs the risk of eroticising them.
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Organic Quests
The structure of a modern Role Playing Came revolves around ‘quests’: tasks that the player character is invited to do, either by the framing narrative of the game or by some non-player character (‘the Quest Giver’). Normally there is one core quest which provides the overarching narrative for the whole game. Wikipedia offers a typology of quests as follows:
Note that a location is not necessarily a fixed x/y location on the map; in a kill quest, for example, location 2 is the current location of the target, and moves when the target moves; location 3 and 4 are both normally the current location of the quest giver, and move when the quest giver moves.
Hybrids are in effect chains of quests: do this task in order to get this precondition of this other task, in order to get the overall objective; obviously such chains can be deep and involved - the ‘main quest’ of every role playing game I know of is a chain or hybrid quest.
My understanding is that what Wikipedia means by a ‘syntax quest’ is what one would normally call a puzzle.
-An escort quest is typically a request to take a specified non-player character safely through a dangerous area.
+An escort quest is typically a request to take a specified non-player character safely through a dangerous area. It is thus very similar to a delivery quest, except that you are escorting a character rather than delivering an item.
Combo quests are not, in my opinion, particularly relevant to the sorts of game we’re discussing here.
So essentially quests break down into three core types
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NOTE: this file is called ‘pathmaking’, not ‘pathfinding’, because ‘pathfinding’ has a very specific meaning/usage in game design which is only part of what I want to talk about here.
NOTE: Work on this is being carried on in a separate library, Walkmap, q.v.
Stages in creating routes between locations
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Saturday, 6 July 2013
(You might want to read this essay in conjunction with my older essay, Settling a game world, which covers similar ground but which this hopefully advances on)
For an economy to work people have to be able to move between occupations to fill economic niches. In steady state, non player character (NPC) males become adult as ‘vagrants’, and then move through the state transitions described in this document. The pattern for females is different.
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This document outlines a plan to move forward from where I am in June 2021.
NOTE: this document has been superceded.
JMonkeyEngine
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Background
Many computer role playing games, particularly older ones such as Neverwinter Nights, allow you to ‘design’ your player character from a fairly broad canvas. Race, class, attributes, gender and appearance are all selectable.
Choice has eroded over time. For example the Dragon Age series, where you can chose between three races, two genders, and a small number of classes. In the Mass Effect trilogy, you play as Shepard, who is human and essentially a Fighter, but can be either male or female and whose appearance you can customise. You can play as either lawful good or chaotic neutral. In Cyberpunk 2077, you play as V, who is human, either male or female, essentially a Fighter, and chaotic neutral.
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009
This essay is part of a series with ‘Worlds and Flats’ and ‘The spread of knowledge in a large game world’; if you haven’t read those you may want to read them before reading this. This essay describes how a large world can come into being and can evolve. I’ve written again on this subject since - see ‘Populating a game world’)
Microworld
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The objective of this essay is to outline an algorithm for creating inhabited landscapes in which games can be set, which are satisfyingly believable when rendered in three dimensions. The objective of creating landscapes ‘procedurally’ – that is, with algorithms – is that they can be very much larger than designed landscapes for the same richness of local detail. This does not mean that every aspect of the final landscape must be ‘procedural’. It would be possible to use the techniques outlined here to create landscapes which were different every time the game was played, but it would be equally possible to create a landscape which was frozen at a particular point and then hand edited to add features useful to the game’s plot. And while I’m principally thinking in this about role playing games, this sort of landscape would be applicable to many other sorts of games – strategy games, god games, first person shooters…
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Consider our landscape as, once again, a fractally folded sheet on which any given point has characteristics based on its elevation and orientation. There are two critical levels – water level and treeline. The water level is, overall, sea level, but in the case of a localised depression it is equal to the lowest land height between the depression and the sea (lakes form in depressions). Computing the fractal sheet forms stage one in computing the landscape. Next, we need functions which, for any given point on the landscape, compute two different dimensions of soil fertility: water and warmth. We’ll assume a coriolis prevailing wind blowing from the west, bringing in damp air from an ocean in that direction. Western slopes are wetter than eastern slopes. In principle, also, there’s likely to be a rain shadow to the east of high ground leading to considerable aridity, but that may be too expensive to compute. Rain runs swiftly off steeper slopes, more slowly on flatter ground, so flatter ground is wetter than steeper ground. Water flows down hill, so lower ground is on the whole wetter than higher ground. This isn’t a precise model of soil hydrology, but I think it’s good enough. From each lake a watercourse follows the lowest possible path to the sea. Watercourses modify the land overwhich they flow, carving out a route at least sufficient to carry the amount of water collected in the watershed above each point. Where watercourses flow down steeper gradients, they carve out gullies, possibly with waterfalls. Where they cross shallower gradients or level ground, they become broader. Computing the watercourses becomes the second stage of computing the lanscape.
Vegetation
Now sprinkle seeds randomly across the landscape at a density of roughly one every ten square metres. Seeds which fall in water, ignore (? or make into water plants?). The position of the plant is taken from the random sprinkling. The species and size of the plant that grows from the plant are a function of the water and warmth functions described above, with latitude and longitude as seeds for pseudo-random functions delivering aspects like branching and so on – enough to make individual plants distinct and not carbon copies even of other plants of the same species, but nevertheless recreatable from just the latitude and longitude. So for each plant only two integers need to be stored, yet every time a player passes he will see an identically recreated world. Of course there is a trade-off between storage space and rendering time, and it may be more efficient to build and cache a detailed model of each plant. Like a lot of other things it depends on the game being designed and the processing power of the platform on which that game is delivered. As to how the functions which select the vegetation type work, obviously trees grow better in wetter places, grassland plants in dryer places; within the wetter places, coniferous trees are more prevalent where it is cooler, broadleaves where it is warmer. In the very wettest places, willows, alders and marshland plants. These plants – the seeded plants – are the feature plants of the landscape. When rendering the landscape the renderer would first apply a suitable local surface texture, for example, in grassland areas, grass.
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In essence, the environment for The Great Game is broadly descended from games like the original Elite space trading game, and Sid Meier’s Pirates!, with some elements from political simulations like for example SimCity.
That is to say there is
An economy simulation
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Saturday, 26 April 2008
Note
This version of this essay has been adapted to use the code in
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Organic quest routing
In a world in which you can talk to non-player characters, and in which non-player characters know the directions to things which are local to their homes (and some, travellers, will be able to give you routes to things further away), when you need to get to your next waypoint you can just ask for directions. That much is easy.
But something much richer occurred to me.
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If the player is allowed to just speak arbitrary dialogue, then the conversation animation of the player character cannot be designed. If non-player characters are able to engage dynamically generated dialogue, in response to events in the game which are not scripted, then their conversation animation for those dialogues cannot be designed. So conversation animation must almost always be dynamically generated, largely from an augmented text of the speech act. With non-player characters, emotional content of a speech act can be generated by exactly the same process which generates the text. Extracting emotional content information from the player character’s voice may be more challenging.
It would be possible to avoid animating the player character’s face by using a first-person camera. However, I don’t personally find this makes for a very engaging game experience.
These thoughts were prompted by a very interesting video and Twitter thread about the perceived failings in the character animation system of Mass Effect Andromeda.
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Long, long, time ago, I can still remember when… we played (and wrote) adventure games where the user typed at a command line, and the system printed back at them. A Read-Eval-Print loop in the classic Lisp sense, and I wrote my adventure games in Lisp. I used the same opportunistic parser whether the developer was building the game
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Anything in the game world with agency; primarily but not exclusively characters.
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Anything in the game world with agency; primarily but not exclusively characters.
ProtoAgent
protocol
An object which can act in the world
members
act
(act actor world circle)Allow
actorto do something in thisworld, in the context of thiscircle; return the new state of the actor if something was done,nilif nothing was done.Circleis expected to be one of-
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Schedules of plans for actors in the game, in order that they may have daily and seasonal patterns of behaviour.
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Schedules of plans for actors in the game, in order that they may have daily and seasonal patterns of behaviour.
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A module of a building; essentially something like a portacabin, which can be assembled together with other modules to make a complete building.
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A module of a building; essentially something like a portacabin, which can be assembled together with other modules to make a complete building.
Modules need to include
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Build buildings with a generally rectangular floow plan.
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Build buildings with a generally rectangular floow plan.
Motivations
Right, the idea behind this namespace is many fold.
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Interchange of news events between gossip agents.
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Interchange of news events between gossip agents.
Note that habitual travellers are all gossip agents; specifically, at this stage, that means merchants. When merchants are moved we also need to update the location of the gossip with the same key.
Innkeepers are also gossip agents but do not typically move.
dialogue
(dialogue enquirer respondent world)Dialogue between an
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Using news items (propositions) to transfer knowledge between gossip agents.
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Using news items (propositions) to transfer knowledge between gossip agents.
Status
What is here is essentially working. It’s not, however, working with the rich data objects which will be needed, and it’s not yet nearly efficient enough, but it allows knowledge to propagate through the world procedurally, at a rate limited by the speed of movement of the gossip agents.
Discussion
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members
building-origin
(building-origin holding)Returns an oriented location - normally the right hand end of the frontage, for an urban holding - from which buildings on the holding should be built.
frontage
(frontage holding)Returns a sequence of two locations representing the edge of the polygon which defines this holding which is considered to be the front.
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protocol
members
altitude
(altitude location)Return the absolute altitude of this location, which may be different from the terrain height at this location, if, for example, the location is underground or on an upper floor.
easting
(easting location)Return the easting of this location
northing
(northing location)Return the northing of this location
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Adjusting quantities and prices in markets.
adjust-quantity-and-price
(adjust-quantity-and-price world city commodity)Adjust the quantity of this
commoditycurrently in stock in thiscityof thisworld. Return a fragmentary world which can be deep-merged into this world.new-price
(new-price old stock supply demand)If
stockis greater than the maximum ofsupplyanddemand, then there is surplus andoldprice is too high, so shold be reduced. If lower, then it is too low and should be increased.run
(run world)Return a world like this
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Useful functions for doing low-level things with merchants.
add-known-prices
(add-known-prices merchant world)Add the current prices at this
merchant’s location in theworldto a new cache of known prices, and return it.add-stock
(add-stock a b)Where
aandbare both maps all of whose values are numbers, return a map whose keys are a union of the keys ofaandband whose values are the sums of their respective values.burden
(burden merchant world)The total weight of the current cargo carried by this
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Trade planning for merchants, primarily.
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Trade planning for merchants, primarily. This follows a simple-minded generate-and-test strategy and currently generates plans for all possible routes from the current location. This may not scale. Also, routes do not currently have cost or risk associated with them.
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Trade planning for merchants, primarily. This follows a simple-minded generate-and-test strategy and currently generates plans for all possible routes from the current location. This may not scale. Also, routes do not currently have cost or risk associated with them.
augment-plan
(augment-plan merchant world plan)Augment this
planconstructed in thisworldfor thismerchantwith the:quantityof goods which should be bought and the:expected-profitof the trade.Returns the augmented plan.
generate-trade-plans
(generate-trade-plans merchant world commodity)Generate all possible trade plans for this
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Further Reading (and watching)
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Further Reading (and watching)
Work by other people which is relevant to what I’m doing, and which I should study.
## Modelling the natural environment
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To build a game using these ideas we need a lot of things that are well understood and already implemented: rendering a world, moving models of characters in a world, and so on. This collection of technologies which allow us to realise an interactive realisation of a world is typically called a game engine.
It’s my intention that the bits that I add to the mix should be open source in the hard sense of that phrase, fully free software released under GPL. They cannot therfore be directly linked to a proprietary game engine.
But the current state of play is that the best and easiest to work with game engines are not open source; and while I could build a demo game using, for example, the Godot engine or jMonkeyEngine the result wouldn’t be as compelling and I believe the effort would be more considerable than if I use Unreal Engine, which is my current plan.
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The principles of game play which I’m looking for are a reaction against all I see as wrong in modern video games. So let’s set out what these are: