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"text": "(1) the structure of the world, including the layout of rooms, textual description of rooms, objects, and non-player characters; and (2) the quest, consisting of the partial ordering of activities that the player must engage in to make progress toward the end of the game. In this work, we focus on methods of automatically generating such a quest and how it can be used to better understand narrative intelligence, specifically looking at perceived creativity and coherence. Quest generation requires narrative intelligence as a quest must maintain coherence throughout and progress towards a goal. Maintaining quest coherence also means following the constraints of the given game world. The quest has to fit within the confines of the world in terms of both genre and given affordancese.g. using magic in a fantasy world. This is further complicated in the case of a text-adventure as a consequence of all interactions being in natural language-the potential output space is combinatorial in size. Because the player \"sees\" and \"acts\" entirely through text, any quest generation system must also take into account the lack of visual information and generate sufficiently descriptive text accordingly.",
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"text": "There are multiple variables that could potentially affect a player's perception of creativity in a text-adventure game such as the vocabulary used, the structure of the world, stylistic variations in writing, etc. We use the TextWorld framework (C\u00f4t\u00e9 et al., 2018) which lets us generate textadventure game worlds based on a grammar. It lets us fix variables concerned with game world and logic generation and focus only on the generation of quests within this world. We use this framework's \"home\" theme-providing us with a textual simulation of a house-and restrict the types of quests that can be generated to those in-volving the completion of a cooking recipe. We then attempt to learn how to generate a quest to complete a recipe-as well as how to create the recipe itself-using a large scale knowledge base of recipes. In these quests, players are provided with a list of ingredients and their locations, and they have to navigate the environment to find and prepare those ingredients to complete the given recipe. For example, given a recipe to make peanut butter cookies the quest would first tell the player to find eggs, peanut butter, flour, and baking soda. The player would then have to figure out that the first ingredient is in the fridge while the others are in the pantry and prepare each item accordingly. Generating this sort of quest requires knowledge of the ingredients, how they fit together, and how those ingredients interact with the environment.",
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"text": "Outside of this, there has been some work on learning to create content in the context of interactive narrative. These systems mainly work to overcome a significant bottleneck in the form of the human authoring required to create such works. Permar and Magerko (2013) present a method of generating cognitive scripts required for freeform activities in the form of pretend play. Specifically, they use interactive narrative-a form of pretend play that requires a high level of impro-visation and creativity and uses cognitive scripts acquired from multiple experience sources. They take existing cognitive scripts and blend them in the vein of more traditional conceptual blending (Veale et al., 2000; to create new blended scripts. Closely related is Magerko et al. (2014) who present a Co-Creative Cognitive Architecture (CoCoA), detailing the set of components that support the design of co-creative agents in the context of interactive narrative. These methods all follow singular cognitive models that do not learn to generate content automatically. Li et al. (2012) present Scheherazade, a system which learns a plot graph based on stories written by crowd sourcing the task of writing short stories through Amazon Mechanical Turk. This plot graph contains details relevant for the coherence of the story and includes: plot events, temporal precedence, and mutual exclusion relations. The generated narrative contains events that can be executed from this plot graph by both players and non-player characters. Guzdial et al. (2015) introduce Scheherazade-IF, a system that learns to generate choose-your-own-adventure style interactive fictions in which the player chooses from prescribed options. More recently, Martin et al. (2017) introduce a pipeline systems for improvisational storytelling agents capable of collaboratively creating stories. These agents first focus on creating a plot for the story and then expand that plot into natural language sentences. Urbanek et al. (2019) introduce Light, a dataset of crowdsourced text-adventure game dialogs focusing on giving collaborative agents the ability to generate contextually relevant dialog and emotes. Giannatos et al. (2011) use genetic algorithms to create new story plot points for an existing game of interactive fiction using an encoding known as a precedence-constraint graph. This graph gives the system information regarding the ordering of events that must happen in the game in order to advance. They demonstrate the workings of their system by generating additional content for the popular interactive fiction game Anchorhead, and show that this can be integrated into the original game. This work, however, is offline and relies on existing interactive fiction games and having knowledge of the precedence-constraint graph for this existing game. The Game Forge system (Hartsook et al., 2011) also uses genetic algorithms to generate a game world and plot line for related type of game, a computer role playing game (CRPG). This work focuses on generating layouts and plot structures to create novel game worlds through with a fitness function based on a transition graph that encodes pre-built game requirements. Tamari et al. (2019) focus on extracting action graphs for sequential decision making problems such as material science experiments and turn them into textadventure games. Although these works use graph structures in order to constrain the generation of the game, we use these graph structures only to maintain coherence and focus on content creation.",
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