Digital Character Interactions with Media Items in a Conversational Session

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium is provisioned with program instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing system to:

• cause a graphical user interface (GUI) of a content authoring tool for creating a visual conversation application to be presented via a first computing device, the GUI comprising one or more selectable media interactions for a digital character, wherein the digital character is configured to interact with a user in a conversational session of the visual conversation application;
• receive, from the first computing device, an indication of a media item to be presented in the conversational session of the visual conversation application;
• receive, from the first computing device, an indication of a given media interaction of the one or more selectable media interactions, wherein the given media interaction comprises a type of engagement of the digital character with the media item;
• and
• cause the conversational session to be presented via a second computing device, wherein the digital character is configured to engage with the media item during the conversational session in accordance with the given media interaction and in a manner that is responsive to content included in an interaction of a user of the second computing device with the digital character during the conversational session.

A method carried out by a computing system, the method comprising:

• causing a graphical user interface (GUI) of a content authoring tool for creating a visual conversation application to be presented via a first computing device, the GUI comprising one or more selectable media interactions for a digital character, wherein the digital character is configured to interact with a user in a conversational session of the visual conversation application;
• receiving, from the first computing device, an indication of a media item to be presented in the conversational session of the visual conversation application;
• receiving, from the first computing device, an indication of a given media interaction of the one or more selectable media interactions, wherein the given media interaction comprises a type of engagement of the digital character with the media item;
• and
• causing the conversational session to be presented via a second computing device, wherein the digital character is configured to engage with the media item during the conversational session in accordance with the given media interaction and in a manner that is responsive to content included in an interaction of a user of the second computing device with the digital character during the conversational session.