A Hybrid of Plot-Based and Character-Based Interactive Storytelling

Interactive storytelling in the virtual environment attracts a lot of research interests in recent years. Story plot and character are two most important elements of a story. Based on these two elements, currently there are two research directions: plot-based and character-based interactive storytelling. However, plot-based approach lacks the refinement of character behaviors as character-based approach. On the other side, character-based approach does not follow a well organized story plot so that the moral of the story might be distorted. Therefore, there is a need to develop an integrated framework to achieve the balance between conveying story moral and enhancing the modeling of character behaviors. In this paper, we propose a hybrid system of the plot-based and character-based approaches. It is constructed as a multi-agent system (MAS), which involves a scriptwriter agent, a director agent, virtual actor agents and other support agents. Fuzzy Cognitive Goal Net (FCGN) is used by ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: EDUTAINMENT
• Authors: Yundong Cai, Chunyan Miao, Ah-Hwee Tan, Zhiqi Shen
• Keywords: Character Behaviors, EDUTAINMENT 2007, Interactive Storytelling, Story Plot