The invention of fictional ideas is often a central process in the creative production of artefacts such as poems, music, paintings and games. Currently, fictional ideation is being studied by the Computational Creativity community within the WHIM European project. The aim of WHIM is to develop the What-If Machine, a software system capable of inventing, evaluating and presenting fictional idea...

Entertainment has always involved fictional characters in artificial settings. Effective use of artificial worlds and characters demands that the agents and worlds be believable and understandable. We examine the world and characters in the Road Runner cartoons, and show how the world, while not realistic, is internally consistent. We argue that the consistency of both the world and the actions...

What fascinates me most about literature is its portrayal of human beings and their relationships. For many years I have been developing a psychological approach in which I try to understand the behavior of realistically drawn characters in the same way that we understand the behavior of real people. These characters are not flesh and blood creatures, of course, but are imagined human beings wh...

Two concepts from narrative theory that often appears in discussions about game sound are diegetic and non-diegetic (Collins, 2007, 2008; Ekman 2005; Grimshaw 2008; Grimshaw & Schott 2007; Jørgensen 2007b, 2008; Stockburger, 2003; Whalen, 2004). The terms are used in film theory to separate elements that can be said to be part of the depicted fictional world from elements that the fictional cha...

"IA7E can truly say that Sherlock Holmes lived * * in Baker Street, and that he liked to show off his mental powers. We cannot truly say that he was a devoted family man, or that he worked in close cooperation with the police. It would be nice if we could take such descrip? tions of fictional characters at their face value, ascribing to them the same subject-predicate form as parallel descripti...

Prop Oriented Make-Believe, Metaphor, Fictionalism: Reply to Elisabeth Camp1 Kendall L. Walton (Draft, 16 September 2013) Prop oriented make-believe is make-believe utilized for the purpose of understanding what I call “props,” real world objects or states of affairs that make propositions “fictional,” i.e. true in the make-believe world.2 Prop oriented make-believe plays important roles in two...