Narrative models are all you need!
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A fun tool for reading comics 🙂 (This doesn’t work great on mobile, but it’s better if you’re in landscape mode) Click on the comics to begin. Writers’ Kitchen by Caroline Catlett Gates The Window Unit, Part 1 by Caroline Catlett Gates Lumberjack Sarah vs Jackhammer Penny by Caroline Catlett Gates This one is longer…
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This story was designed for the experiment in this paper. I was trying to predict people’s choices at the end based on what they do in the beginning. It worked pretty well! I built it with the Twine interactive fiction engine. The beautiful art was done by Caroline Catlett Gates. The ugly art was me…
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Many computational models of narrative include representations of possible worlds—events that never actually occur in the story but that are planned or perceived by the story’s characters. Psychological tools such as QUEST are often used to validate computational models of narrative, but they only represent events which are explicitly narrated in the story. In this…
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Predicting User Choices in Interactive Narratives using Indexter’s Pairwise Event Salience Hypothesis
Indexter is a plan-based model of narrative that incorporates cognitive scientific theories about the salience of narrative events. A pair of Indexter events can share up to five indices with one another: protagonist, time, space, causality, and intentionality. The pairwise event salience hypothesis states that when a past event shares one or more of these…
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Novelty pruning is a simple enhancement that can be added to most planners. A node is removed unless it is possible to find a set of n literals which are true in the current state and have never all been true in any of that plan’s previous states. Expanding on the success of the Iterated…
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Honest Abe is a 2D beat ’em up style game made with Unity by a team of 9 students in one semester. I was one of 6 developers and one of 4 game designers. As a developer I mainly worked on the enemy AI. There are three levels, several different kinds of baddies, three bosses,…
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Song by Pachamamacitas Produced by LongLiveLunacy C C F F I feel the warmth on our sheets each time I make our bed. C C G G Cause I know that it won’t feel the same way once you are dead C C F F I pour two cups of…
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Song by Pachamamacitas Produced by LongLiveLunacy E Lobsters are monogamous A they mate for life B7 weeelllllllllll Except for one named Louie, E who wouldn’t take a wife. E His friends would say that Louie A Was doomed to rot in jail B7 He thought the world was his oyster…
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Song by Pachamamacitas Produced by LongLiveLunacy E The most noble motorable A Locomotive motorist E was notable for having loco motives.E they would find, he had a one-track mind A but no rail plan of attack D A always coverin up his tracks D A7 going off the rails and back…
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Song by Pachamamacitas Produced by LongLiveLunacy A You are pretty rude to me D7 but not as rude as you could be A E A E7 You treat me like somebody who likes me Boy don’t you make no mistake Cause I’m not looking for a date You been acting like a fool A7…
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