Title :
DEVELOP-FPS: A First Person Shooter development tool for rule-based scripts
Author :
Correia, Bruno ; Urbano, Paulo ; Moniz, Luís
Author_Institution :
LabMAg, FCUL, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
We present DEVELOP-FPS, a software tool specially designed for the development of First Person Shooter (FPS) players controlled by Rule Based Scripts. DEVELOP-FPS may be used by FPS developers to create, debug, maintain and compare rule base player behaviours, providing a set of useful functionalities: i) for an easy preparation of the right scenarios for game debugging and testing; ii) for controlling the game execution: users can stop and resume the game execution at any instant, monitoring and controlling every player in the game, monitoring the state of each player, their rule base activation, being able to issue commands to control their behaviour; and iii) to automatically run a certain number of game executions and collect data in order to evaluate and compare the players performance along a sufficient number of similar experiments.
Keywords :
computer games; human computer interaction; program debugging; program testing; software maintenance; software tools; user interfaces; DEVELOP-FPS; computer game; first person shooter development tool; game debugging; game execution control; game testing; rule base activation; rule base player behaviours; rule-based scripts; software tool; Computer architecture; Debugging; Engines; Games; Java; Monitoring; Software tools; Behaviour Control and Monitoring; Development Software Tool; Intelligent Game Characters; Rule Based Scripts;
Conference_Titel :
Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2012 7th Iberian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2843-2