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AI Summit: Innovations in Procedural Narrative

Emily Short  (Creative Director, Failbetter Games)

Borut Pfeifer  (Principal Engineer, WolfEye Studios)

Stephen Ware  (Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of Computer Science)

Location: Room 2006, West Hall

Date: Monday, March 21

Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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Topic: Programming

Format: Session

Viewing Experience: In-Person/Virtual Livestream

Vault Recording: Video

Audience Level: Yes

This session looks at three procedural narrative projects, considering what is currently possible – the aesthetic challenges and production realities of building compelling games out of small pieces of story, the gameplay implications of writing NPCs with rich social models, and the ways we represent NPC intention and purpose procedurally – and suggesting some directions for things to come.

The segments are: Once Upon a Time in the (Weird) West: Procedural Storytelling in Weird West, Borut Pfeifer

Sabre: Automatic Narrative Planning with Intentions and Beliefs, Stephen G Ware

Social Models and Core Gameplay in Mask of the Rose, Emily Short

Intended Audience

Suitable for AI programmers interested in narrative and narrative designers interested in procedural approaches to their discipline.