The scope of this survey paper is to explore the challenges in automatic story generation.
We hope to contribute in the following ways: 1. Explore how previous research in story …

In computer games and simulations, content is often rather static and rigid. As a result, its
prescripted nature can lead to predictable and impersonal gameplay, while alienating …

Computers are often used as tools to design, implement, and even visualize a variety of
narrative forms. Many researchers and artists are now further attempting to engage the …

A number of changes are occurring in the field of computer game development: persistent
online games, digital distribution platforms and portals, social and mobile games, and the …

Serious games are steadily becoming a powerful tool for educational purposes as their
challenging characteristics are suggested to make them particularly appealing to learn with …

Versu is a text-based simulationist interactive drama. Because it uses autonomous agents,
the drama is highly replayable: you can play the same story from multiple perspectives, or …

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 …

Authoring tools are a crucial component in the practice and research of interactive digital
narrative design, yet no recent meta-analysis or mapping of such tools exists that would …

We introduce a research framework for the design of interactive experiences in the domain
of emergent narrative, an application area of computational narrative in which stories …

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 …