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For interactive-fiction and game writers curious about authoring a space of possible stories rather than one fixed plot. It summarises the paper's three views, abstraction tools, play-time planning and reported user study. Based on the abstract and full text only; nothing was run, and the results are the authors' own.
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WhatELSE: shaping a narrative space with a pivot, outline and variants (arXiv 2502.18641, documentary)
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For interactive-fiction and game writers curious about authoring a space of possible stories rather than one fixed plot. It summarises the paper's three views, abstraction tools, play-time planning and reported user study. Based on the abstract and full text only; nothing was run, and the results are the authors' own.
Useful starting points
- The authors' study had 12 participants with little interactive-narrative authoring experience and no comparison against traditional authoring tools.
- The authors saw people underestimate how large a narrative space is when they work only from the outline, so read generated variants before trusting an outline.
- The paper text is CC BY-SA, so any text adapted from it carries share-alike.
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