Making Stories Player-Specific: Delayed Authoring in Interactive Storytelling

Thue, David; Bulitko, Vadim

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_30

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“…As far back as Talespin [11] and as recently as PaSSAGE [18], narrative generation systems have relied on human authors to supply the conflict that drives the story. This is also common in the games industry; most story-based games have a pre-established plot.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Validating a plan-based model of narrative conflict

Ware

Young

2012

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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Conflict is an essential element of interesting stories. In previous work, we proposed a formal model of narrative conflict based on intentional planning that is designed to facilitate story generation. This paper presents the results of an experiment to test whether or not our model can answer "who?" "why?" and "when?" questions about conflict similarly to humans analyzing the same stories. Our model has some success at predicting which conflicts human readers will report and performs well at recognizing which characters are in conflict and for how long.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Validating a plan-based model of narrative conflict

Ware

Young

2012

Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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“…As far back as Talespin [17] and as recently as PaSSAGE [18], narrative generation systems have relied on human authors to supply the conflict that drives the story. This is also common in the games industry; most story-based games have a preestablished plot.…”

Section: B Conflict Generationmentioning

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“…Threatened causal links are fixed by preventing the ordering (lines [18][19] or by adding bindings to which prevents the threatening effect of from logically unifying with (line 20). Note that threatened causal link flaws are not added for conflict links because they do not need to be repaired (line 29).…”

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A Computational Model of Plan-Based Narrative Conflict at the Fabula Level

Ware

Young

Harrison

et al. 2014

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games

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Conflict is an essential element of interesting stories. In this paper, we operationalize a narratological definition of conflict and extend established narrative planning techniques to incorporate this definition. The conflict partial order causal link planning algorithm (CPOCL) allows narrative conflict to arise in a plan while maintaining causal soundness and character believability. We also define seven dimensions of conflict in terms of this algorithm's knowledge representation. The first three-participants, reason, and duration-are discrete values which answer the "who?" "why?" and "when?" questions, respectively. The last four-balance, directness, stakes, and resolution-are continuous values which describe important narrative properties that can be used to select conflicts based on the author's purpose. We also present the results of two empirical studies which validate our operationalizations of these narrative phenomena. Finally, we demonstrate the different kinds of stories which CPOCL can produce based on constraints on the seven dimensions.

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“…Many current digital storytelling authoring systems make use of this emergent narrative approach, based on virtual agents. These include the Scenejo system [137], which is mainly focused on configuring conversational agents, approaches using rehearsals for demonstrating the envisioned story to virtual characters [82,5], or authoring during the playing experience [146].…”

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Authoring of Adaptive Single-Player Educational Games

Mehm

2014

PIK - Praxis Der Informationsverarbeitung Und Kommunikation

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Making Stories Player-Specific: Delayed Authoring in Interactive Storytelling

Cited by 20 publications

References 2 publications

Validating a plan-based model of narrative conflict

Validating a plan-based model of narrative conflict

A Computational Model of Plan-Based Narrative Conflict at the Fabula Level

Authoring of Adaptive Single-Player Educational Games

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