How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do
mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia. In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah …

Technologies that were initially developed to be applied within the domain of video games
are currently being used in experiments to explore their meaning and possibilities for …

Computer games represent an ideal research domain for the next generation of
personalized digital applications. This paper presents a player-centered framework of AI for …

As robots become more advanced and capable, developing trust is an important factor of
human-robot interaction and cooperation. However, as multiple environmental and social …

HANDBOOK ON INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING Discover the latest research on crafting
compelling narratives in interactive entertainment Electronic games are no longer …

We present a study that investigates the heretofore unexplored relationship between a
player's sense of her narrative role in an interactive narrative role-playing game and the …

Player agency is central to interactive narrative and games. While previous work focuses on
analyzing player perception of agency through various lenses and phenomena, like …

Choice poetics is a formalist framework that seeks to concretely describe the impacts
choices have on player experiences within narrative games. Developed in part to support …

A choice positively contributes to a player's sense of agency when it leads to meaningfully
different content. We shed light on what a player may consider meaningfully different by …

In automatically generated interactive narratives (INs) with strong story structure, there is
often a tension between player choice and author constraints. This tension arises when the …