Conference proceeding
Towards story-based content generation: From plot-points to maps
2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Inteligence in Games (CIG)
Aug 2013
Abstract
Some computer game genres require meaningful stories and complex worlds in order to successfully engage players. In this paper we look at a procedural approach to story-based map generation focusing on the tight relationship between stories and the virtual worlds where those stories will unfold. Our long term goal is to develop procedural content generation techniques that can produce maps supporting multiple stories. We present an approach that takes, as input, the specification of a story space as a collection of plot points. Causal relations between these plot points and spatial relationships between locations define different story and spatial structures. Our system generates multiple configurations of a map, determines the stories that are actually supported in each map, and evaluates their quality, in order to find maps that support high quality stories from a storytelling perspective.
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Details
- Title
- Towards story-based content generation: From plot-points to maps
- Creators
- Josep Valls-Vargas - Drexel UniversitySantiago Ontanon - Drexel UniversityJichen Zhu - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Inteligence in Games (CIG)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Digital Media; Computer Science
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84892395983
- Other Identifier
- 991019173450904721