There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative:
instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying authored narrative content, a system …

Stories in released games are still based largely on static and predetermined structures,
despite decades of academic work to make them more dynamic. Making game narratives …

Concepts utilizing applied ethics, such as responsible conduct of research (RCR), can prove
difficult to teach due to the complexity of problems faced by researchers and the many …

Choice-driven narratives, such as those created through systems like Twine, are a
compelling form of interactive storytelling that have been around for many years. But as long …

We present Expressionist, an authoring tool for in-game text generation that combines the
raw generative power of context-free grammars (CFGs) with the expressive power of free …

Abstract The Expressive Intelligence Studio is develo** a new approach to freeform
conversational interaction in playable media that combines dialogue management, natural …

Choice poetics is a formalist framework that seeks to concretely describe the impacts
choices have on player experiences within narrative games. Developed in part to support …

Concepts utilizing applied ethics, such as responsible conduct of research (RCR), can prove
difficult to teach due to the complexity of problems faced by researchers and the many …

While game studies and interactive narrative communities have developed a rich body of
research around agency in our interactions with narrative systems, comparatively little …

Dramatic choices are the core of the content in contemporary adventure games like those
produced by Telltale Games and Dontnod Entertainment, developers of the Life is Strange …