Integrating Story-Centric and Character-Centric Processes for Authoring Interactive Drama

Computer aided interactive drama has been widely applied for entertainment and pedagogy. Most existing approaches for authoring interactive drama use either story-centric or character-centric processes. In this work, we present a new framework that integrates both types of processes to support authoring. This framework uses a multi-agent system to control virtual characters in a story. The characters' motivations are encoded as the agents' goals, and are configured based on well-structured story paths generated using a partial order planner. This framework allows the use nner that models the story at a more abstract level than the multi-agent system, and thus avoids the effort of building equivalent models of the story using both the planner and the multi-agent system. We explore the use of this new framework for authoring interactive dramas. Preliminary examples of application are presented.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AIIDE
• Authors: Mei Si, Stacy C. Marsella, Mark O. Riedl
• Keywords: AIIDE 2008, Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Dramas, Most Existing Approaches, Multi-agent System