Procedural content generation (PCG) in video games offers unprecedented opportunities for
customization and user engagement. Working within the specialized context of role-playing …

There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative:
instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying authored narrative content, a system …

In this paper, we study the viability of the deployment of language models towards non-
playable character (NPC) scripts, by introducing a novel pipeline for the automatic …

Stories in released games are still based largely on static and predetermined structures,
despite decades of academic work to make them more dynamic. Making game narratives …

We present Expressionist, an authoring tool for in-game text generation that combines the
raw generative power of context-free grammars (CFGs) with the expressive power of free …

In text generation, generating long stories is still a challenge. Coherence tends to decrease
rapidly as the output length increases. Especially for generated stories, coherence of the …

Ever since the advent of computers there have been research efforts to emulate
computationally the way in which people can create stories. Artificial intelligence (AI) and the …

This dissertation explores the notion of shared authorship in interactive narratives and
computational media. A work of shared authorship is one in which the player and the system …

Non-Player Character (NPC) is one of the important elements in the game, because NPCs
can liven up the atmosphere in the game by means of intense interaction with players with …

In games that do model character knowledge procedurally, the AI architecture that handles
such concerns is often called a gossip system. Few projects, however, have supported …