This method is the main emotional interpretation logic entry point. It performs the complete appraisal of a single event (belief) for all agents (affectedAgent=null) or for only one agent (affectedAgent=true) if affectedAgent is set, then the complete appraisal logic is executed including the effect on relations (possibly influencing the emotional state of other agents), but only if the affected agent (the one owning the goal) == affectedAgent this is sometimes needed for efficiency, if you as a game developer know that particular agents can never appraise an event, then you can force Gamygdala to only look at a subset of agents. Gamygdala assumes that the affectedAgent is indeed the only goal owner affected, that the belief is well-formed, and will not perform any checks, nor use Gamygdala's list of known goals to find other agents that share this goal (!!!)

A facilitator method to appraise an event. It takes in the same as what the new Belief(...) takes in, creates a belief and appraises it for all agents that are registered. This method is thus handy if you want to keep all gamygdala logic internal to Gamygdala.

A facilitator method that creates a new Agent and registers it for you

A facilitator method to create a goal for a particular agent, that also registers the goal to the agent and gamygdala. This method is thus handy if you want to keep all gamygdala logic internal to Gamygdala. However, if you want to do more sophisticated stuff (e.g., goals for multiple agents, keep track of your own list of goals to also remove them, appraise events per agent without the need for gamygdala to keep track of goals, etc...) this method will probably be doing too much.

A facilitator method to create a relation between two agents. Both source and target have to exist and be registered with this Gamygdala instance. This method is thus handy if you want to keep all gamygdala logic internal to Gamygdala.

This method decays for all registered agents the emotional state and relations. It performs the decay according to the time passed, so longer intervals between consecutive calls result in bigger clunky steps. Typically this is called automatically when you use startDecay(), but you can use it yourself if you want to manage the timing. This function is keeping track of the millis passed since the last call, and will (try to) keep the decay close to the desired decay factor, regardless the time passed So you can call this any time you want (or, e.g., have the game loop call it, or have e.g., Phaser call it in the plugin update, which is default now). Further, if you want to tweak the emotional intensity decay of individual agents, you should tweak the decayFactor per agent not the "frame rate" of the decay (as this doesn't change the rate).

You can set Gamygdala to use this function for all emotion decay by calling setDecay() and passing this function as second parameter. This function is not to be called directly.

Simple agent getter by name.

Simple goal getter by name.

You can set Gamygdala to use this function for all emotion decay by calling setDecay() and passing this function as second parameter. This function is not to be called directly.

Facilitator method to print all emotional states to the console.

For every entity in your game (usually NPC's, but can be the player character too) you have to first create an Agent object and then register it using this method. Registering the agent makes sure that Gamygdala will be able to emotionally interpret incoming Beliefs about the game state for that agent.

For every goal that NPC's or player characters can have you have to first create a Goal object and then register it using this method. Registering the goals makes sure that Gamygdala will be able to find the correct goal references when a Beliefs about the game state comes in.

Sets the decay factor and function for emotional decay. It sets the decay factor and type for emotional decay, so that an emotion will slowly get lower in intensity. Whenever decayAll is called, all emotions for all agents are decayed according to the factor and function set here.

Facilitator to set the gain for the whole set of agents known to TUDelft.Gamygdala. For more realistic, complex games, you would typically set the gain for each agent type separately, to finetune the intensity of the response.