Interactive drama concerns itself with building dramatically interesting virtual worlds inhabited by computer-controlled characters, within which the user (hereafter referred to as the player) experiences a story from a first person perspective (Bates 1992). Over the past decade there has been a fair amount of research into believable agents, that is, autonomous characters exhibiting rich perso...

The opposition between story and instruction set out in the preface to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa establishes a relationship novel's moral import its form, genre, style. It is dichotomy that appears privilege an ethical schema ideal, theoretic, reflective alongside prose style impersonal, emphatic, also reflective. In this article, I show economy of novel is, fact, quick display limitations d...

Narrative AI needs to model more than just action. In this paper, we investigate the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agent architecture to allow plots to be modelled in terms of character motivation. This allows authors to focus on elements of the character model which are highly relevant to plot. We describe an extended implementation of the ConGolog agent programming language which includes BDI...

The ability to generate narrative can be applied to entertainment and educational applications to the benefit of both. In this paper, I informally evaluate several narrative generation systems. Automated narrative generation systems can be classified as character-centric and author-centric techniques. Character-centric systems tend to develop narratives with strong character believability but w...

With the rapid advancement of hardware and software, entertainment computing industry has been popularized during the last decade. TV content/story production is a major bottleneck in the entertainment industry. Previous work has identified key problems, such as narrative control, the duality between character and plot, the tension between interactivity and storytelling, and the tools that arti...

In this work, we visualized two aspects of narrative structure: character interactions and relative emotional trajectory. We performed the analysis for three different books: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. We visualize character relationships in a dynamic graph that displays the evolution of connections between...

One of the aspects that is used to keep the reader’s interest in a story is the network of relationships among the characters that take part in that story. We can model the relationship between two characters using their mutual affinities, which allow us to define which interactions are possible between two characters. In this paper we present a model to represent characters’ affinities and we ...

The Virtual Storyteller is a framework for story creation by co-operating intelligent agents. In this framework, a collection of agents is responsible for the creation of different story levels: plot, narrative, and presentation. In the Virtual Storyteller, plots are automatically created based on the actions of autonomous characters whose plot creation is only constrained by general plot requi...