Imagine socially intelligent computer game characters with a natural dialogue, human-like in their ways of relating to others, who gossip, manipulate and have their own agendas. New research can ...

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The game is available as a downloadable ROM that can run on the STELLA emulator, as well as on actual Atari cartridges being produced with the team at Atari Age, complete with an instruction manual.

Today the free program is used in more than 150 countries and thousands of schools, with more than 1,500 animations and games uploaded to the online Scratch community each day.