Story telling engine based on agent interaction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004

The Virtual Storyteller is a multi-agent framework for automatic story generation. In this paper we describe how plots emerge from the actions of semi-autonomous character agents, focusing on the influence of the characters' emotions on plot development.

2012

Affective agent architectures can be used as control components in Interactive Storytelling systems for artificial autonomous characters. Creative authoring for such systems then involves configuration of these agents that translate part of the creative process to the system's runtime, necessarily constrained by the capabilities of the specific implementation. Using a framework for presenting configuration options based on literature review; a questionnaire evaluation of authors' preferences for character creation; and a case study of an author's conceptualisation of the creative process, we categorise available and potential methods for configuring affective agents in existing systems regarding creative exploration. Finally, we present work-in-progress on exemplifying the different options in the ActAffAct system.

2010

A lot of researches haven been done on the interactive storytelling authoring , e.g. by a director agent, or by interactions among a number of character agents. However, it is still difficult to construct the interactive storytelling for novice users, due to a need of various agents development and complex communication among the agents. We propose an agent-based interactive storytelling architecture, namely DIRACT (short of "Direct and Act"). It is composed of numerous atomic DIRACT agents, which are goal oriented and use an unified communication protocol. By removing the difference between the director and character, each DIRACT agent can either direct or act the story in real-time. As a result, it is scalable to story complexity, reusable for inheritance and makes the interactive storytelling authoring much easier.

2002

Abstract In this paper, we describe a method for implementing the behaviour of artificial actors in the context of interactive storytelling. We have developed a fully implemented prototype based on the Unreal Tournament™ game engine, and carried experiments with a simple sitcom-like scenario. We discuss the central role of artificial actors in interactive storytelling and how real-time generation of their behaviour participates in the creation of a dynamic storyline.

2007

Complex and dynamic systems are difficult to understand, and without extended training and experience people tend to misperceive these systems. Although current simulations tools illustrate what is happening in the complex systems, they lack the means to represent the narrative aspects of the exhibited behaviors in order to provide an account for the behaviors. This knowledge is contained in the structure of the system, but the user has to perform the analysis manually, which is a highly challenging task. In this paper we present the development and evaluation of the Visualization Lab which visualizes the behaviors of system dynamics models using video narratives.

International Research Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology

Comic strips have long been a popular method of storytelling, capturing the imagination of readers of all ages and evolving into a wide range of genres today, from superhero comics to political comics. Studies show that comic strips have a significant impact on readers' literacy, empathy, and openness to social issues. Comics have the ability to alter how to perceive the world. This research paper presents a system (ComicGenie) for automatically creating comic strips for Batman based on user-entered text descriptions. The proposed system consists of distinct components such as character detection, environment detection, text bubble generation, and voiceover over the scenario, each specializing in different aspects of comic strip creation. SVM and fastText technologies in NLP were utilized for text classification when developing models. Overall, this research contributes to the field of comic strip creation, offering a comprehensive web application. The ComicGenie holds significant potential to revolutionize the comic industry and inspire new avenues for computergenerated storytelling.

2011

Interactive virtual storytelling attracts a lot of research interests to create engaging, interactive and dynamic storytelling. However, currently there is a big gap between story plot modeling to believable character modeling and it is still a great challenge to create an interactive storytelling system from text-based stories for novice. In this paper, we propose an Agent-Oriented Methodology for Interactive Storytelling (AOMIS) to guide novice to generate interactive storytelling system. In this methodology, interactive storytelling system is constructed as a multi-agent system of director agent and character agents. The interactive storytelling is simulated as the goal pursuing of the agents affecting by user interactions and context changes. By viewing the interactive storytelling in the perspective of goal-oriented agents, our methodology is a hybrid of plot-oriented interactive storytelling and character-based interactive storytelling.

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2006

The paper presents requirements for the design of unscripted (emergent) dramas based on research into role-playing games. It considers the FearNot! demonstrator in antibullying education as a sample implementation, describing the architecture of its affectively driven intelligent autonomous characters. It presents a comparative evaluation of the unscripted version against an earlier scripted version, examines related work and further development of the emergent narrative approach.