Dynamic social planning and intention revision in generative story planning

Abstract

In narrative planning, complex, interesting stories are built around plot elements where characters work both competitively and cooperatively to achieve their goals. In contrast to previous intentionality modeling, a narrative story planner might introduce non-optimal character plans that contain flaws or idiosyncrasies for dramatic purpose. The goal of this research project is to introduce a narrative planning system that can be used in a virtual environment to create engaging stories that reflect a predicted user mental model of the narrative.

Evaluating the Use of Action Templates to Create Suspense in Narrative Planning

“…IRIS (Fendt 2010) is a narrative planner that uses a Drama Manager and belief/desire/intention mental modeling with intention revision to produce suspenseful stories. This paper reports the results of two experiments on the suspenseproducing components of the IRIS system and shows that a set of action templates is sufficient to create story-action level suspense in story fragment generation.…”

“…The IRIS story generation system (Fendt 2010), too, seeks to improve the player's narrative experience. One of the system's components is a small set of action templates that are introduced in the story plan creation process to create localized moments of story action-level suspense.…”