Managing Emergent Character-Based Narrative

Aylett, Ruth; Louchart, Sandy; Tychsen, Anders; Hitchens, Michael; Figueiredo, Rui; Mata, Carlos Delgado

doi:10.4108/icst.intetain2008.2468

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“…Emergent narrative is a type of narrative framework inspired by the role of the Game Master in non computerbased role-playing games that are seen as genres in which narrative structure and interactive freedom are often successfully reconciled [57]. Given that there is no longer a unique, pre-determined plot, the methods applied in other story managers, designed to defend such a plot against the variability introduced by interactive freedom, seem inappropriate.…”

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Designing Effective Serious Games: Opportunities and Challenges for Research

Bellotti

Berta

Gloria

2010

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Abstract-SeriousGames represent an acknowledged potential for instruction, because they are able to strongly motivate learners. They can also provide immersive environments where advanced users can practice knowledge and skills, also exploiting multimodal interaction. They can combine the effectiveness of computer processing and data storage, with high levels of attractiveness. Our work has investigated the state of the art research on SGs, starting from the cognitive aspects, that are necessary in order to root technological development and applications in sound theoretical foundations. The paper discusses some key aspects about SG design and exploitation: choice of components-off-the-shelf or from-scratch design, tools and methodologies for development or adaptation, intelligent tutoring, virtual coaches and affective learning, living worlds, game mechanics, Human-Computer Interaction.While several SGs have been developed, still the literature stresses a lack of significant, extensive user tests. Further research is necessary to investigate in greater detail the real effectiveness of the various types of SGs. The paper proposes several research questions -that range from requirements elicitation to design and from deployment to use and evaluation -to be answered in order to avoid technology pushing and drive technological research according to the requirements of the end-users and stakeholders.We believe that deepening the analysis about these issues is key to strengthen the foundations of SG research, for which we identify four major directions: definition of metrics and learning progress evaluation tools; methodologies and tools for designing games from various topics and for various users; computing and communication architectures; technologies that can enhance the overall system performance.

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Designing Effective Serious Games: Opportunities and Challenges for Research

Bellotti

Berta

Gloria

2010

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

188

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“…Both plot-and character-based approaches have looked at the role of story management, facilitation or direction [6,27,30,47], which can be placed at any of the four CAUSE points in Figure 1. RIDERS has a part to play in supporting a growing investigation of story-shaping in genres such as improvisational drama [41,45] and table-top role-play [6,47].…”

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“…RIDERS has a part to play in supporting a growing investigation of story-shaping in genres such as improvisational drama [41,45] and table-top role-play [6,47].…”

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Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-Telling

Aylett

Louchart

Weallans

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper gives an overview of the UK network RIDERSResearch in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-telling, running for 36 months from September 2011. It discusses the three central themes of RIDERS: theoretical work on the conflict between interactivity and narrative content, problems, issues and tools relating to authoring, and directions in evaluation. It gives a brief overview of the current position in each of these areas and suggests how RIDERS activity might be able to contribute to them. Finally it summarises the overall RIDERS programme of activity.

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“…By giving the actors meta-goals to achieve, they can decide which are the most interesting assumptions, similar to the double appraisal mechanism in FearNot! (Aylett et al, 2008). For example, if the meta-goal is to start a conflict, the actor can pick from a number of available conflict descriptions and try to fill in the assumption in such a way that the character's resulting plan will achieve the preconditions that will cause the conflict.…”

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“…Furthermore, deliberative reasoning has the possibility to use one of three emotion-focused coping strategies: acceptance, acknowledging a plan failure; mental disengagement, lowering one's expectations of a plan; and denial, ignoring possible threats to the plan. Aylett et al (2008) propose two approaches to overcome the narrative paradox. The first of this is inspired by plot or way points as used by Weyhrauch (1997).…”

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Meta matters in interactive storytelling and serious gaming : a play on worlds

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Stories, in games, novels, films, and all media alike, help us understand our world. Stories provide an escape from the real world, but they also reflect reality. They provide situations that may previously have been unimaginable, leading us to think about concepts in different ways. We learn through stories, we construct our mental model of the world through them.In this dissertation, I investigate the use of storytelling techniques in the domains of interactive storytelling and serious gaming. The field of interactive storytelling attempts to create and analyse systems that provide an interactive experience to users: the latter can influence the plot of story as it is being told. Serious gaming is concerned with the use of games for purposes other than only entertainment; in this dissertation, I investigate serious games with educational purposes. In both domains, I inspect how both human users and virtual agents (artificial, autonomous entities) can perceive stories.In Part i of this dissertation, I present my main thesis: the meta matters when interacting with interactive storytelling systems and serious games. All stories and games take place in a context: they take place in virtual worlds embedded within the real world. This concept is captured by the term magic circle. Virtual worlds are not separated from the real world; they are interconnected. Moreover, events and perceptions in the real world influence people's behaviour in the virtual world and vice versa. My research revolves around the use of such meta-information to improve experiences with interactive storytelling systems and serious games.In Part ii of this dissertation, I delve into the field of interactive storytelling, specifically focusing on the Virtual Storyteller (vst) and its successor, the Interactive Storyteller (ist). The vst provides users with an emergent narrative: stories are generated based on the interactions between virtual agents which play characters in the story. In the ist, users can take control of one of the characters, substituting a virtual agent, and influence how the story plays out. I first investigated how the meta matters to these systems by analysing interactions between pairs of children and the ist. This analysis showed that children, apart from only enacting in-character (ic) behaviour, actively go meta to reason about their plans and discuss their experience amongst each other (out-of-character behaviour, ooc). We created a scheme that allows for the annotation of this communication to discern the types of ic and ooc behaviour. With this scheme, we could see how the children's perspectives toward their interaction changed over time.Using the vst, we investigated how the meta can matter to its virtual agents. The generation of stories in the vst relies on the characters in the story world performing actions that advance the story. However, this does not necessarily entail that characters will take those actions. For example, if they can go about their way and never meet each other, possible conflicts can be avo...

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Managing Emergent Character-Based Narrative

Cited by 25 publications

References 10 publications

Designing Effective Serious Games: Opportunities and Challenges for Research

Designing Effective Serious Games: Opportunities and Challenges for Research

Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-Telling

Meta matters in interactive storytelling and serious gaming : a play on worlds

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