TOWARD REUSABLE ROLEPLAYERS USING AN APPRAISAL-BASED ARCHITECTURE

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Table 1 Dramatica's Eight Archetypal Characters as Opposing Pairs (terms from Campbell or Vogler in parentheses)

Protagonist (Hero)	↔	Antagonist
Guardian (Mentor)	↔	Contagonist (Threshold Guardian)
Reason (Herald)	↔	Emotion (Shadow)
Sidekick	↔	Skeptic (Shapeshifter, Trickster)

Table 2 Example of Clear-cut Archetypes in Film

Dramatica	Star Wars	The Matrix
Protagonist	Luke	Neo
Guardian	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Morpheus
Reason	Princess Leia	Trinity
Skeptic	Han Solo	Cypher
Antagonist	The Empire	Agent Smith

Table 3 Valenced Reactions (from Ortony [2003, p. 194])

to…	Positive reactions	Negative reactions	against…
Event	…because something good happened (joy, happy-for, gloating)	…because something bad happened (distress, sorry-for, envy)	Goal
	…about the possibility of something good happening (hope)	…about the possibility of something bad happening (fear)
	…because a feared bad thing did not happen (relief)	…because a hoped-for good thing did not happen (disappointment, sadness)
Action	…about a self-initiated praiseworthy act (pride, gratification = pride + joy)	…about a self-initiated blameworthy act (shame, remorse = shame + distress)	Standard
	…about an other-initiated praiseworthy act (admiration, gratitude = admiration + joy)	…about an other-initiated blameworthy act (reproach, anger = reproach + distress)
Object	…because one finds something appealing or attractive (love, liking)	…because one finds someone/–thing unappealing (hate, dislike)	Taste

Figure 1 Emotion response tendencies (from Ortony [2003, p.198]).

Figure 2 The ActAffAct agent architecture (based on [Staller and Petta 2001]).

Figure 3 Sequence diagram: Interaction of the stage threads.

Figure 4 The AAAViewer application.

Table 4 Objects in ActAffAct's Environment

Object	Possible use
Bomb	activate or deactivate
Rope	bind someone
Flower	give it as a present
Key	unlock the treasure
Sword	loosen the rope or threaten someone
Block[1–3]	stack them
Treasure	give it as a present

Figure 5 Villain steals flower; Hero awaits a block.

Ortony , A. 2003 . On making believable emotional agents believable . In Emotions in Humans and Artifacts , eds. R. Trappl and P. Petta , 189 – 212 , Cambridge , MA : The MIT Press .

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