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Cozy mystery construction kit: prototyping toward an AI-assisted collaborative storytelling mystery game

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Elisabeth Oliver,

Melanie Dickinson,

Stella Mazeika,

Noah Wardrip-FruinAuthors Info & Claims

FDG '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Article No.: 86, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/3337722.3341853

Published: 26 August 2019 Publication History

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This paper presents a case study in the experience-first prototyping of a generative game. Our goal in this process was to create a PCG-based mystery story construction game ncentered on a social simulation of characters and their motivations, and driven by a set of core themes and experiences we wanted players to encounter. In pursuit of this goal, we created a series of prototypes to test how a variety of generative and AI-based techniques---including character generation, character action suggestion based on game state, story sifting, and social simulation---may be used in support of collaborative storytelling. In this paper we catalogue these prototypes and what we have learned by creating them, detailing design elements we found to be successful in supporting player creativity and that may be useful to the developers of similar games and experiences going forward.

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Cozy mystery construction kit: prototyping toward an AI-assisted collaborative storytelling mystery game
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
      1. Computer games
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms

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FDG '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

August 2019

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DOI:10.1145/3337722

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