A Structure for Modern Computer Narratives

Verbrugge, Clark

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-40031-8_21

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“…Here we have investigated and shown the practical feasibility of a basic reachability problem, but pre/post-condition analysis is relatively independent of goal and our design could be easily extended to apply to a variety of interesting narrative verification questions. Properties more generically depending on game paths or state relations, such as "pointlessness" [4], or constraints on spatial locality [1] are search-related problems, and could be examined using our techniques. Further application is found in determining the path to more immediate game goals (such as how to open the next door), where search speed improvements are essential for developing online and interactive but generic and automated game hint systems.…”

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“…Adams, for instance, proposed basic guidelines for industry developers in a series of online articles [3], where among many other properties the problem of narrative game-play being allowed past the point of winnability was presented; Verbrugge formalized this notion as "pointlessness." [4]. Barros and Musse proposed a model designed to ensure pace/tension [2], and Nelson et al defined properties related to the spatial locality of actions, as well as motivational or logical continuity of events [1].…”

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“…Logic-based approaches are popular in this context, and have been applied to verify the time-line of a non-linear story [6], and ensure logical correctness and continuity of events [7]. Petri net models have also been proposed and used to represent narratives for both story construction and analysis [4,8,9,10]. Our work here builds on previous experience in winnability analysis, applying a generic SAT-based solver to a Petri net model of game narratives [5].…”

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“…For such games a number of narrative properties become important to an immersive game experience, including logical consistency, continuity of story elements [1], level of "tension" or atmosphere [2], as well as game-play issues such as ensuring player progress, and adequate coverage of potential player choices [3,4]. The complexity of larger narratives, however, can make formal analysis of narratives difficult.…”

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Analyzing Computer Game Narratives

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2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In many computer games narrative is a core component with the game centering on an unfolding, interactive storyline which both motivates and is driven by the game-play. Analyzing narratives to ensure good properties is thus important, but scalability remains a barrier to practical use. Here we develop a formal analysis system for interactive fiction narratives. Our approach is based on a relatively high-level game language, and borrows analysis techniques from compiler optimization to improve performance. We demonstrate our system on a variety of non-trivial narratives analyzing a basic reachability problem, the path to win the game. We are able to analyze narratives orders of magnitude larger than the previous state-of-the-art based on lower-level representations. This level of performance allows for verification of narrative properties at practical scales.

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Analyzing Computer Game Narratives

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2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…In [11], in order to characterize narrative structures, they propose "narrative nets" (N-nets), which are based on colored Petri nets. In [12], a representation framework called Narrative Flow Graphs (NFG), derived from 1-safe Petri Net, is proposed. NFG can be used to verify desirable properties, or as the basis for a narrative development system.…”

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Constructing a Role Playing Interactive Learning Content Model

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Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Workshops (ISMW 2007)

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Author-Driven Approaches to Computational Narrative Design for Games

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Malizia

2019

Human-Computer Interaction. Perspectives on Design

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Accessible Head Mounted Displays (HMD) have provided mass access to Extended Reality (XR) content as never before. One of the key complaints from HMD owners, however, is the lack of substantial high-quality content (Moore, 2017). Coupled with the domain-specific topic of presence, which describes a state beyond the concept of immersion instead with the user feeling part of the virtual world. Utilizing traditional production techniques cost and the duration of the resultant product are inextricably linked, although some progress reducing manual hours has been made with the introduction of Procedural Content Generation (PCG); the focus of this shift has been on asset creation rather than narratives (Kapadia et al., 2017). While PCG can reduce the cost of production it does not however directly increase the duration of the game. The current solution from developers has been to implement game mechanics to increase the duration of the game, leading to a rise in arcade-style wave shooters (Anon., 2018), however, this solution is not applicable to long-form content such as narrative-based Role Playing Games (RPG), story-based first-person action games and interactive narratives. The intended contribution of this paper is both to describe the challenges to the academic knowledge in procedurally generated content and computational narratives but is also about studying how those approaches can be democratized, enabling wider adoption within the content creation community, with a view to their eventual use within non-entertainment sectors.

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A Structure for Modern Computer Narratives

Cited by 4 publications

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Analyzing Computer Game Narratives

Analyzing Computer Game Narratives

Constructing a Role Playing Interactive Learning Content Model

Author-Driven Approaches to Computational Narrative Design for Games

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