Character-Based Interactive Storytelling

Character Based Interactive Storytelling for Role Playing Games

One of the main advantages of computers or games consoles over other entertainment media is that they provide the user with a means to interact with the system. Video games as an entertainment medium provide an excellent opportunity to tell a truly interactive story in which the players actions and interactions with non-player characters affect the entire development and structure of the story....

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...

Robust Interactive Storytelling Framework for Automatic TV Content/Story Production

With the rapid advancement of hardware and software, entertainment computing industry has been popularized during the last decade. TV content/story production is a major bottleneck in the entertainment industry. Previous work has identified key problems, such as narrative control, the duality between character and plot, the tension between interactivity and storytelling, and the tools that arti...

A Conversational Avatar Framework for Digital Interactive StoryTelling

Digital Interactive Storytelling (DIS) is a relatively novel area of computer entertainment which aims at investigating interactive applications capable of generating consistent, emergent and rich stories. To provide new solutions for DIS, we have proposed a novel multi-agent DIS framework, DIEGESIS, which includes agents' coordination and new planning and replanning solutions for DIS. A natura...

10. Character Animation in Interactive Storytelling

Real-Time Camera Control for Interactive Storytelling

In this paper, we present a fully implemented prototype of real-time cinematic control for character-based interactive storytelling approaches, where story diversity emerges from dynamic interaction between characters. We describe the specifities of real-time cinematic control within a dynamic virtual environment, where events occur at different locations at the same time. We also present resul...