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 …

Bad News is an award winning game, simulation, and performance art piece which depends
on story sifting and live acting performed simultaneously and in real time by two human …

Social simulation has been a popular domain in computational creativity for decades.
However, while it has been used in applications that are easily digestible by end users (eg …

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 …

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 …

We present a fully procedural alternative to branching dialogue that is influenced by theories
from linguistic pragmatics and technical work in the field of dialogue systems. Specifically …

In this paper we survey the motivations behind contemporary game AI research by analysing
individual publications, the researchers themselves, and the institutions that influence them …

Logic programming and rule-based systems are often chosen for tasks such as social
simulation because their use of declarative rules and predicates map well to rules of social …

We present a method for generating social networks for gameworlds with very many
characters. The method, a generalization of the approach we employ in Talk of the Town …

Abstract Players in Dear Leader's Happy Story Time are placed in the role of contestants in a
reality TV show where they are forced to audition for roles in the upcoming film of the host, a …