Scribe: A Tool for Authoring Event Driven Interactive Drama

Medler, Ben; Magerko, Brian

doi:10.1007/11944577_14

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“…ISAT system architecture (retrieved from [2]) author role. She/he can interface with a story authoring tool, named Scribe [58], to define both the story content and flow. The defined story/scenario is represented in the form of partially-ordered plot points.…”

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A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

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Abstract-As an emerging form of digital entertainment, interactive narrative has attracted great attention of researchers over the past decade. Recently, there is an emerging trend to apply interactive narrative for training and simulation. An interactive narrative system allows players to proactively interact with simulated entities in a virtual world and have the ability to alter the progression of a storyline. In simulation-based training, the use of an interactive narrative system enables the possibility to offer engaging, diverse and personalized narratives or scenarios for different training purposes. This paper provides a review of interactive narrative systems and technologies from a training perspective. Specifically, we first propose a set of key requirements in developing interactive narrative systems for simulation-based training. Then we review nine representative existing systems with respect to their system architectures, features and related mechanisms. To examine their applicability to training, we investigate and compare the reviewed systems based on the functionalities and modules that support the proposed requirements. Furthermore, we discuss some open research issues on future development of interactive narrative technologies for training applications.

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Section: Environmentmentioning

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A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

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“…In the field of IS itself, several authors have described tools facilitating the construction of interactive narratives using some visualization support. For instance, story graphs have been used in different authoring systems to explicitly represent all the possible story paths in INSCAPE [9], [29], U-Create [26], Scribe [19], and SceneMaker [13]. These tools present intuitive methods of visualization which can assist authors during the story creation process.…”

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Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards

Pizzi

Lugrin

Whittaker³

et al. 2010

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games

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Game programmers rely on artificial intelligence techniques to encode characters' behaviors initially specified by game designers. Although significant efforts have been made to assist their collaboration, the formalization of behaviors remains a time-consuming process during the early stages of game development. We propose an authoring tool allowing game designers to formalize, visualize, modify, and validate game level solutions in the form of automatically generated storyboards. This system uses planning techniques to produce a level solution consistent with gameplay constraints. The main planning agent corresponds to the player character, and the system uses the game actions as planning operators and level objectives as goals to plan the level solutions. Generated solutions are presented as 2-D storyboards similar to comic strips. We present in this paper the first version of a fully implemented prototype as well as examples of generated storyboards, adapted from the original design documents of the blockbuster game Hitman.

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“…Louchart et al [4] proposed a metaphorical landscape as a visualisation for emerging plotlines. Medler and Magerko [6] defined rather general requirements such as usability, debugging, control of pacing/timing and generality. A similar problem to the one presented here was the basis for Mateas and Stern's article on procedural authorship [5], with the conclusion that "authors must programme".…”

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“…The Time-Consuming Task of Entering Content Generally speaking, we still lack usable enough authoring tools to enter content, despite the previous work tackling this issue [6,12,16]. Currently, entering contentat first sight -closely resembles programming activities, because at least partially, data structures must be directly entered in text files (such as XML structures).…”

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Authoring Issues beyond Tools

Spierling

Szilas

2009

Interactive Storytelling

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Abstract. Authoring is still considered a bottleneck in successful Interactive Storytelling and Drama. The claim for intuitive authoring tools is high, especially for tools that allow storytellers and artists to define dynamic content that can be run with an AI-based story engine. We explored two concrete authoring processes in depth, using various Interactive Storytelling prototypes, and have provided feedback from the practical steps. The result is a presentation of general issues in authoring Interactive Storytelling, rather than of particular problems with a specific system that could be overcome by 'simply' designing the right interface. Priorities for future developments are also outlined.

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Scribe: A Tool for Authoring Event Driven Interactive Drama

Cited by 46 publications

References 9 publications

A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards

Authoring Issues beyond Tools

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