Marlinspike is an interactive drama system. It produces a story by playing short pre-authored story components called scenes in response to the actions of a human player. Marlinspike selects the next scene to play so as to reincorporate—or narratively build upon—as much of the story-so-far as possible. In accordance with an Aristotelian definition of narrative unity, this reincorporation serves...

Interactive storytelling is an interesting cross-disciplinary area that has importance in research as well as entertainment. In this paper we explore a new area of interactive storytelling that blurs the line between traditional interactive fiction and collaborative writing. We present a system where the user and computer take turns in writing sentences of a fictional narrative. Sentences contr...

In this paper, we discuss another approach based on mimicry for interactive comedy, a relatively new genre in interactive drama. An interactive comedy system is proposed in which the main character agent tends to mimic an agent controlled directly by the viewer. At the same time, the main character agent plays its original role through achieving its pre-assigned goal. Heuristic Search Planner i...

Audio-visual narratives are becoming the most popular medium for information sharing and social storytelling around a live event. This paper explores the collective experience of users of an online creative storytelling ecosystem. The system provides an ideal platform to study community-driven story co-authoring helped by social networks and networked media, as highlighted in an eventbased user...

Adaptation of stories – as a translation between media, such as literature and film – is explored for genres of interactive storytelling that make use of highly-interactive and user-adaptive technology. A concrete case study of transforming and abstracting a Hemingway short story is discussed in detail. The conclusion is that even though Interactive Storytelling content has to follow formal mod...