Authoring Highly Generative Interactive Drama

Szilas, Nicolas; Marty, Olivier; Réty, Jean-Hugues

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-40014-1_5

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“…Abstraction has been identified as a key issue in authoring [20,21,23]. Although some forms of linear writing (such as screenwriting) involves a kind of abstract thinking, what characterizes generative writing is the fact that authors need to directly enter abstract data into the system.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Authoring such systems is quite difficult, not only because of a lack of user-friendly authoring tools, but also and more importantly because of inherent conceptual difficulties in handling the computational data needed to produce an interactive drama. The abstract nature of these data makes the authoring task particularly difficult [20,23].…”

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Structural Writing, a Design Principle for Interactive Drama

Szilas

Richle

Dumas

2012

Interactive Storytelling

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Abstract.Computer-based highly interactive drama involves different authoring approaches, compared to linear media. Underlying design principles needs to be understood in order to guide the authoring process, to teach authors and to design better systems. This paper identifies a fundamental design principle termed Structural Writing that underlies some of the most generative approaches in interactive drama. A theoretical description of this principle is proposed, which leads to a general architecture for interactive drama that may help authors and researchers to design systems that better exploit the principle of structural writing.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Structural Writing, a Design Principle for Interactive Drama

Szilas

Richle

Dumas

2012

Interactive Storytelling

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“…We take examples of our own systems and authoring tools to illustrate these problems: IDtension [17,18], an interactive drama system that generates actions based on narrative principles, Scenejo [12], a character-centric conversational storytelling system based on conversing chatbots, and Rencontre [10], a fragment-based writing / reading system with dynamically generated hyperlinks. To complement the data, we also present feedback found in literature, since the goal is not to blame one specific tool but to generalize the issues.…”

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confidence: 99%

Authoring Issues beyond Tools

Spierling

Szilas

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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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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“…Authoring is one of the main issue in Interactive Drama [12,21,23], since the complexity of current approaches and tools has prevented authors from writing compelling stories.…”

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confidence: 99%