What is a storylet, and along what design dimensions do storylet / quality-based narrative systems vary, according to the scholars who mapped them?

Partially verified: the curator re-read S35; S12 was not re-read by the curator and rests on the producer's pinned reading. Kreminski and Wardrip-Fruin define storylets as discrete, reorderable narrative modules gated by preconditions (term from Fallen London/Echo Bazaar) and map systems on four dimensions: precondition type, repeatability, internal structure and content-selection architecture (player choice, random, weighted, salience-based, search, drama manager), surveying eight systems; relative strengths are left to future work. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read S35; S12 was not re-read by the curator and rests on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S12: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin. Papers, posts and docs read 2026-10-22; no story built. Harlowe storylet macro (S12) not re-read. Short position paper. Limitations: Papers, posts and docs read 2026-10-22; no story built. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "note": "Kreminski and Wardrip-Fruin, Sketching a Map of the Storylets Design Space (ICIDS 2018) PDF"
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      "url": "https://mkremins.github.io/publications/Storylets_SketchingAMap.pdf",
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