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Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

ICIDS 2008: Interactive Storytelling pp 273–284Cite as

Purposeful Authoring for Emergent Narrative

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Emergent narrative (EN) is a narrative concept in virtual reality that relies on emergence for a flexible shaping of stories as opposed to fixed pre-determined plots. This has consequences for the creative role of the author in an EN system. In this paper, we aim to clarify the actual function of the author by investigating what is exactly mediated in ENs and how this can be filled in by an author at design time.

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  • Critical Mass
  • Story Development
  • Story Generation
  • Story World
  • Narrative Development

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  1. MACS group, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Sandy Louchart, Michael Kriegel & Ruth Aylett

  2. Human Media Interaction group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Ivo Swartjes

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  1. FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Altonaerstr. 25, 99085, Erfurt, Germany

    Ulrike Spierling

  2. TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, CH 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Nicolas Szilas

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Louchart, S., Swartjes, I., Kriegel, M., Aylett, R. (2008). Purposeful Authoring for Emergent Narrative. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_35

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