Abstract. To inform the design of interactive drama systems, we investigate the experience of an interactor being part of a story that they can have a fundamental influence on. Im...
A growing research community is working towards employing drama management components in story-based games. These components gently guide the story towards a narrative arc that imp...
Our continued investigation into the experience of improvisers as they construct narrative in improvisational theatre provides a meaningful decomposition of its atomic unit, the of...
A drama manager (DM) monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so that it satisfies the author's expressive g...
— In this paper, we evaluate a drama management approach deployed in an implementation of a graphical interactive fiction game. Our approach uses players’ feedback as a basis f...