Optimizing Players' Expected Enjoyment in Interactive Stories
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In interactive storytelling systems and other story-based computer games, a drama manager is a background agent that aims to bring about an enjoyable and coherent experience for the players. In this paper, we present a personalized drama manager that increases a player’s expected enjoyment without removing player agency. Our personalized drama manager models a player’s preference using data-driven techniques, predicts the probability the player transitioning to different story experiences, selects an objective experience that can maximize the player’s expected enjoyment, and guides the player to the selected story experience. Human study results show that our drama manager can significantly increase players’ enjoyment ratings in an interactive storytelling testbed, compared to drama managers in pre-
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