Collaborative procedurally elaborated storytelling

Our imaginations are capable of a rich and varied set of possibilities, not all of which can be represented currently by narrative game systems. If the content for those systems need not be authored ahead of time, and instead can be drawn from a human storyteller and incorporated into gameplay, we can learn which capabilities they bring to bear contribute the most to the player’s experience. This proposed system will provide a set of specific, context-sensitive decisions to the human storyteller that have before been coded into the logic. This study should yield validation and insights for current AI research goals including dynamic story creation, autonomous characters and various social and dramatic simulations and planners. The ultimate goal of this system’s design is to improve the experience of narrative, the player’s sense of autonomy and agency and anticipate input that current systems cannot yet accurately interpret or represent. Currently the narrative world in computer games is represented, by necessity, entirely in the system. This limitation creates gaps between the player’s affordances and what the system can respond to and produce. This system relaxes the constraint that all content must be authored ahead of time allows us to affect the shape of the experience, by empowering players to make key decisions interpreted through a system that handles representing the evolving narrative and social dynamics of the characters. This allows the narrative system to make decisions based more on higher-order goals such as flow and interest. Game design and future systems will benefit from insights into how players respond to a system capable of advanced planning, emotional understanding and creative improvisation, through using humanlevel intelligence and presence.