Emotional agents as non-playable characters in games: Experience with Jadex and JBdiEmo

The paper presents an emergency situation simulation game developed at the home institution of the authors as a system of emotional agents on the Jadex platform enhanced by the JBdiEmo emotional engine, which implements the OCC emotional model. It demonstrates usability of Jadex and JBdiEmo for development of such games, explains how the player and non-playable characters are represented by emotional BDI agents, explores limits of 3D visualization support of Jadex and provides some solutions on how to overcome them.