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<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>Minimum Viable Product, and a road map</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/highlight.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="js/highlight.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/page_effects.js"></script><script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script></head><body><div id="header"><h2>Generated by <a href="https://github.com/weavejester/codox">Codox</a></h2><h1><a href="index.html"><span class="project-title"><span class="project-name">The-great-game</span> <span class="project-version">0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</span></span></a></h1></div><div class="sidebar primary"><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Project</span></h3><ul class="index-link"><li class="depth-1"><a href="index.html"><div class="inner">Index</div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Topics</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1"><a href="A-generic-planning-algorithm-for-craftworker-npcs.html"><div class="inner"><span>A Generic Planning Algorithm for craftworker NPCs</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="API_Spec.html"><div class="inner"><span>API Spec (unfinished)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Appraisal.html"><div class="inner"><span>Appraisal (unfinished)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Baking-the-world.html"><div class="inner"><span>Baking the world</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Building_on_microworld.html"><div class="inner"><span>Building on Microworld</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Canonical-dictionary.html"><div class="inner"><span>Canonical dictionary for this documentation</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Division_of_tasks_between_server_and_client.html"><div class="inner"><span>Division of tasks between server and client (unfinished)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Dynamic-consequences.html"><div class="inner"><span>On the consequences of a dynamic game environment for storytelling</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Economy.html"><div class="inner"><span>Game world economy (unfinished)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Further-reading.html"><div class="inner"><span>Further Reading (and watching)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Game_Play.html"><div class="inner"><span>Game Play (unfinished)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Genetic-buildings.html"><div class="inner"><span>Genetic Buildings</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Gossip_scripted_plot_and_Johnny_Silverhand.html"><div class="inner"><span>Gossip, scripted plot, and Johnny Silverhand</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 current"><a href="MVP-Roadmap.html"><div class="inner"><span>Minimum Viable Product, and a road map</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Modelling_trading_cost_and_risk.html"><div class="inner"><span>Modelling trading cost and risk (unfinished)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Naming-of-characters.html"><div class="inner"><span>Naming of Characters</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Not_my_problem.html"><div class="inner"><span>Not my problem</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="On-dying.html"><div class="inner"><span>On Dying, and Injury</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="On-sex-and-sexual-violence.html"><div class="inner"><span>On Sex, and Sexual Violence, in Games</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Organic_Quests.html"><div class="inner"><span>Organic Quests</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Pathmaking.html"><div class="inner"><span>Pathmaking</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Populating-a-game-world.html"><div class="inner"><span>Populating a game world</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Pseudo-object-inheritance.html"><div class="inner"><span>Pseudo object inheritance</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Roadmap.html"><div class="inner"><span>Roadmap (obsolete)</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Sandbox.html"><div class="inner"><span>Sandbox</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Selecting_Character.html"><div class="inner"><span>Selecting the Player Character</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Settling-a-game-world.html"><div class="inner"><span>Settling a game world</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Sexual-dimorphism.html"><div class="inner"><span>Sexual dimorphism</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Simulated-genetics.html"><div class="inner"><span>Simulated Genetics</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Simulation-layers.html"><div class="inner"><span>Simulation layers</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="The-spread-of-knowledge-in-a-large-game-world.html"><div class="inner"><span>The spread of knowledge in a large game world</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Things_Voice_Interaction_Enables.html"><div class="inner"><span>Things Voice Interaction Enables</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Tree-library-evaluation.html"><div class="inner"><span>Tree library evaluation</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Uncanny_dialogue.html"><div class="inner"><span>The Uncanny Valley, and dynamically generated dialogue</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Voice-acting-considered-harmful.html"><div class="inner"><span>Voice acting considered harmful</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="Worlds-and-flats.html"><div class="inner"><span>Worlds and flats [obsolete]</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1"><a href="intro.html"><div class="inner"><span>Introduction to the-great-game</span></div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Namespaces</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>cc</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-2"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>journeyman</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-3"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>the-great-game</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>agent</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.agent.agent.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>agent</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.agent.schedule.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>schedule</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -83px;"><span class="top" style="height: 92px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>buildings</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.buildings.module.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>module</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.buildings.rectangular.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>rectangular</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -83px;"><span class="top" style="height: 92px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>character</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.character.sex.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>sex</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -52px;"><span class="top" style="height: 61px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>gossip</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.gossip.gossip.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>gossip</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.gossip.news-items.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>news-items</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div 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class="bottom"></span></span><span>location</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -52px;"><span class="top" style="height: 61px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>lore</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.lore.digester.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>digester</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -52px;"><span class="top" style="height: 61px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>merchants</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.merchants.markets.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>markets</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.merchants.merchant-utils.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>merchant-utils</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.merchants.merchants.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>merchants</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.merchants.planning.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>planning</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>strategies</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-6"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.merchants.strategies.simple.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>simple</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -207px;"><span class="top" style="height: 216px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>objects</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.objects.character.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>character</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.objects.container.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>container</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.objects.game-object.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>game-object</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.playroom.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -114px;"><span class="top" style="height: 123px;"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>playroom</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>proving</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.proving.core.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>core</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.proving.sketches.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>sketches</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-4 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.time.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree" style="top: -83px;"><span class="top" style="height: 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class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>mw</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5 branch"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.world.routes.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>routes</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-5"><a href="cc.journeyman.the-great-game.world.world.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>world</span></div></a></li></ul></div><div class="document" id="content"><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><h1><a href="#minimum-viable-product-and-a-road-map" id="minimum-viable-product-and-a-road-map"></a>Minimum Viable Product, and a road map</h1>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>I also know that the movement of a character around a convincing three dimensional representation of a world can be done, but that a great deal of effort is needed to build that world.</p>
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<p>The minimum viable product does not need to demonstrate features which people have reasonable confidence can be done. What I need to demonstrate is the things which people haven’t seen done, or haven’t seen done well.</p>
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<h2><a href="#prototype-one-the-minimum-viable-product" id="prototype-one-the-minimum-viable-product"></a>Prototype one: the minimum viable product</h2>
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<p>The minimum viable product can have just a text adventure style interface:</p>
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<p>You are in the market square. It is mid morning. To the north is the guild hall; to the east there are market stalls; to the south is the residence; to the west is the bridge gate.</p>
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<p>There is a merchant here; there is a guardsman here.</p>
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<p>To which the user can type (for example)</p>
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<p>Say to the guardsman, “Can you direct me to Master Dalwhiel’s house?”</p>
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<p>Within that interface, you should be able to interact with characters who:</p>
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<li>have different levels of knowledge of the world, partly driven by their age, trade and personal history;</li>
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<li>move about and exchange gossip, even when the player is not present to see/hear this;</li>
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<li>have different attitudes towards the player and other characters, which will be modified by what they learn in gossip;</li>
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<li>have their own hierarchies of needs, which they make plans to satisfy;</li>
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<li>have homes and trades;</li>
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<li>will respond to speech addressed to them by the player depending on their attitude to the player, how busy they are and their knowledge of the world; and</li>
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<li>as a stretch goal, will have different dialects in which they will express their responses to the player.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>There should be one or two multiple decision point quests in this world which can be resolved by talking to characters.</p>
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<h2><a href="#prototype-two-adding-organic-quests" id="prototype-two-adding-organic-quests"></a>Prototype two: adding organic quests</h2>
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<p>Extends prototype one only by adding <a href="Organic_Quests.html">organic quests</a>.</p>
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<h2><a href="#prototype-three-voice-interaction" id="prototype-three-voice-interaction"></a>Prototype three: voice interaction</h2>
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<p>Extends prototype two by adding speech to text, so that the player can directly talk (via a microphone) to characters, and text to speech, so that the system can voice the characters’ responses.</p>
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<p>Different characters should have different voices.</p>
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<h2><a href="#prototype-four-performative-speech" id="prototype-four-performative-speech"></a>Prototype four: performative speech</h2>
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<p>This one is hard because I’m not absolutely sure how I can do it, but I need characters’ voices to convey emotion; the player needs to know from their voice whether they are angry, or frightened, or impatient, or bored.</p>
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<p>There is a <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/">W3C specification</a> for an XML markup for speech performance, and I can certainly generate that, but I’d need to find a text-to-speech library which could consume it. There’s also a separate <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/">specification</a> to associate pronunciations with lexical tokens, which is also potentially useful, especially for names.</p>
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<p>Google has a ‘<a href="https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml">Cloud Text-to-Speech</a>’ service which understands SSML and might be good enough for a demo but is more likely just embarrassingly bad.</p>
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<h2><a href="#prototype-five-traversible-world" id="prototype-five-traversible-world"></a>Prototype five traversible world</h2>
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<p>Now, a small section of a three dimensional open world, with at this stage simple block buildings that the player cannot enter, within which the characters act out their lives.</p>
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<p>Stretch goal, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFIxiz0jwRE">JALI</a>-like lip sync.</p>
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