Models for Story Consistency and Interestingness in Single-Player RPGs

Lankoski, Petri

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“…Szilas et al [52] discuss interestingness as a paradox dramatic situation with obstacles and conflicts, albeit applicable to stories as successive events. Yet, to approach subjective measurements such as interestingness, most research turns towards having human evaluation [30,33] or using such to form human models to be used as surrogate models [35,50].…”

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TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation

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2022

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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Games are complex, multi-faceted systems that share common elements and underlying narratives, such as the conflict between a hero and a big bad enemy or pursuing a goal that requires overcoming challenges. However, identifying and describing these elements together is non-trivial as they might differ in certain properties and how players might encounter the narratives. Likewise, generating narratives also pose difficulties when encoding, interpreting, and evaluating them. To address this, we present TropeTwist, a trope-based system that can describe narrative structures in games in a more abstract and generic level, allowing the definition of games' narrative structures and their generation using interconnected tropes, called narrative graphs. To demonstrate the system, we represent the narrative structure of three different games. We use MAP-Elites to generate and evaluate novel quality-diverse narrative graphs encoded as graph grammars, using these three hand-made narrative structures as targets. Both hand-made and generated narrative graphs are evaluated based on their coherence and interestingness, which are improved through evolution. CCS CONCEPTS• Applied computing → Computer games; • Theory of computation → Grammars and context-free languages.

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TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation

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2022

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“…Szilas et al [47] discuss interestingness as a paradox dramatic situation with obstacles and conflicts, albeit applicable to stories as successive events. Yet, to approach subjective measurements such as interestingness, most research turns towards having human evaluation [48], [49] or using such to form human models to be used as surrogate models [50], [51].…”

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TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation

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2022

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Games are complex, multi-faceted systems that share common elements and underlying narratives, such as the conflict between a hero and a big bad enemy or pursuing some goal that requires overcoming challenges. However, identifying and describing these elements together is non-trivial as they might differ in certain properties and how players might encounter the narratives. Likewise, generating narratives also pose difficulties when encoding, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating them. To address this, we present TropeTwist, a trope-based system that can describe narrative structures in games in a more abstract and generic level, allowing the definition of games' narrative structures and their generation using interconnected tropes, called narrative graphs. To demonstrate the system, we represent the narrative structure of three different games. We use MAP-Elites to generate and evaluate novel qualitydiverse narrative graphs encoded as graph grammars, using these three hand-made narrative structures as targets. Both handmade and generated narrative graphs are evaluated based on their coherence and interestingness, which are improved through evolution.

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“…Search Terms Used Sicart (2010) Morality & games Lankoski (2013) Morality & "Video games" Siu & Reidl (2016) Design & "Games with a purpose" Poesio, Chamberlain, Kruschwitz, Robaldo, and Ducceschi (2015) Design & "Games with a purpose" Flanagan (2009) Added afterward Schrier (2016a) Added due to being late-breaking and not searchable yet Narvaez (2006) "Moral education" & design Berkowitz & Bier (2007) "Moral education" & design Sicart (2009a) Morality & "video games" & "design" Mah, Taylor, Hoang, and Cook (2014) Morality & Learning & "Design principles" Konstantinidis, Tsiatsos, and Pomportsis (2009) Teaching & morality & "Design principles" von Ahn & Dabbish (2008) Design & "Games with a Purpose" Dulacka (2012) Design & "Games with a Purpose" Mayhew and King (2008) "Moral education" & design Pe-Than, Goh, and Lee 2014"Crowdsourcing games" & design Deng, Joshi, and Galliers (2016) Crowdsourcing & Ethics Appendix B. Round One Design Principle Categories From the Literature Review.…”

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Designing Games for Moral Learning and Knowledge Building

Schrier

2017

Games and Culture

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How can we better learn about and teach moral thinking and skills? How can we solve moral problems? One possible way is to create and use moral learning games, or games that enable players to work on moral scenarios, make moral choices, and gain relevant skills. One possible subcategory of these games is moral knowledge games, or games that aim to solve real-world moral problems and create new knowledge about morality. This article systematically analyzes relevant literature and related games and media to uncover a preliminary set of design principles for creating moral learning games and moral knowledge games. Frameworks such as the Elemental Tetrad, Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics (MDA), and Ethics Practice and Implementation Categorization Framework (EPIC) were used to analyze individual games and media. Ten different categories of principles emerged, along with 95 possible subprinciples. Implications, next steps, and limitations of this analysis were also discussed.

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Models for Story Consistency and Interestingness in Single-Player RPGs

Cited by 6 publications

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TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation

TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation

TropeTwist: Trope-based Narrative Structure Generation

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