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Emergent Narrative and Late Commitment

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2008)

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Emergent narrative is an approach to interactive storytelling in which stories result from local interactions of autonomous characters. We describe a technique for emergent narrative that enables the characters to fill in the story world during the simulation when this is useful for the developing story.

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  1. Human Media Interaction group, Twente University,  

    Ivo Swartjes, Edze Kruizinga, Mariët Theune & Dirk Heylen

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  1. Ivo Swartjes
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Helmut Prendinger James Lester Mitsuru Ishizuka

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Swartjes, I., Kruizinga, E., Theune, M., Heylen, D. (2008). Emergent Narrative and Late Commitment. In: Prendinger, H., Lester, J., Ishizuka, M. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_80

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