Interactive entertainment attribute setting

Details Interactive entertainment attribute setting Interactive entertainment attribute setting

1996-08-29

1998-12-15

Harrison, Jessica J.

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...

463 31, A63F 922

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058489347

ABSTRACT:
A method of controlling, and apparatus for, an interactive entertainment system, in which user input influences the path taken through a narrative branch structure (90). Features of the narrative are assigned a respective attribute store containing an attribute value (80-83) and, for at least some paths of the narrative (XA,AB,AC,CD), one or more of the attribute values are altered. At least one branch point (E) of the narrative has conditional access (Y) and default paths (N) leading therefrom, with access being enabled or denied on the basis of one or more current attribute values.

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