Creating engaging interactive story-based experiences dynamically responding to individual
player choices poses significant challenges for narrative-centered games. Recent advances …

Bolstered by a growing interest in simulating believable non-player characters (NPCs), work
on NPC models has spanned topics such as planning, procedural storytelling, decision …

Sabre is a narrative planner—a centralized, omniscient decision maker that solves a multi-
agent storytelling problem. The planner has an author goal it must achieve, but every action …

Characters that are capable of expressing emotions seem more lifelike to a human
audience. Interacting with emotional characters may cause a human user to feel empathy …

Believable virtual characters enhance the experience of interactive virtual worlds. BDI-based
state-space narrative planners make their characters more compelling by granting them …

Intelligent interactive narrative systems coordinate a cast of nonplayer characters to make
the overall story experience meaningful for the player. Narrative generation involves a …

Narrative planning generates a sequence of actions which must achieve the author's goal
for the story and must be composed only of actions that make sense for the characters who …

Low-level game environments and other simulations present a difficulty of scale for an
expensive AI technique like narrative planning, which is normally constrained to …

Planning-based narrative generation is effective at producing stories with a logically-sound
flow of events, but it can be limiting due to the rigidity of its constraints and the high burden …

Narrative planners generate sequences of actions that represent story plots given a story
domain model. This is a useful way to create branching stories for interactive narrative …