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Open Design Challenges for Interactive Emergent Narrative

Authors : James Owen Ryan, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Published in: Interactive Storytelling

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Abstract

We introduce a research framework for the design of interactive experiences in the domain of emergent narrative, an application area of computational narrative in which stories emerge bottom-up from the behavior of autonomous characters in a simulated storyworld. Prior work in this area has largely concerned the development and tuning of the simulations themselves from which interesting stories may reliably emerge, but this approach will not necessarily improve system performance at its most crucial level—the actual interactive experience. Looking to completed experiences, namely simulation games like Dwarf Fortress and The Sims, we identify a series of shortcomings that yield four design challenges at the level of interaction: modular content, compositional representational strategies, story recognition, and story support. In this paper, we motivate and discuss each of these design challenges and, for each, summarize prior work and propose new approaches that future work might take.

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We have adapted this term from that of an analogous task in computer vision, object recognition, in which discrete objects are identified in image data [37].
 
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What the most useful notion of storiness is will likely vary by system and application.
 
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Metadata
Title
Open Design Challenges for Interactive Emergent Narrative
Authors
James Owen Ryan
Michael Mateas
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Interactive Storytelling

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-27035-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-27036-4

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_2

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