Automatic Narrative Evolution

We present a tool that enables complex, unfixed temporal structures in digital narrative and also facilitates the creation of works that are a hybrid of human authorship, structural design, and machine writing. The system has basic similarities with other tools for the development of non-linear and interactive narrative, but it is unique in its form and visual/textual behavior because it takes the printed page as its model rather than traditional hypertext. At its core the system can be considered a creative evolutionary system. In particular, we can consider it to be a co-evolutionary, collaborative (1+1)-ES system. In order to cope with the difficulty of assigning a viable semantics to textual constructs we designed a markup language allowing a composer to assign semantics to bodies of text.