Re: Dialogue

[Kenneth Lu <kenlu@MIT.EDU>]

At 23:53 +0100 1/29/01, Aa-Tchoo! Translations wrote:
>I have seen various live storytellers on stage before small 
>audiences, and I would say that the best of them have simply 
>established a relationship to the audience and proceeded to describe 
>their own experiences of events that the people in the audience 
>could also have experienced, but didn't.

Right.. I mean, just think about how excited people get about, say, 
interstellar trading games... If you really were an interstellar 
trader, it'd just be your day to day job. :)

Day to day stuff can be interesting, especially if it's not too much 
like your own day. :)

At 23:53 +0100 1/29/01, Aa-Tchoo! Translations wrote:
>Dynamically generated dialogue will be interesting and enjoyable 
>when it comes. But in terms of computer processor power, it costs 
>too much to be top on the list of things the designer considers most 
>important.

But considering that much of written or filmed fiction is dialogue, I 
think that it's still highly worth exploring..

-ToastyKen

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