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Quinn Kybartas , Clark Verbrugge , Jonathan Lessard ·

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Emergent narratives are dependent on the behaviour modelling of agents in the storyworld. Typical approaches to behaviour modelling, however, overly encourage individual goals and needs, ignoring the dynamic interpersonal relations needed to create rising and falling conflicts. In this paper, we present a force dynamic agent model, in which relations and goals are modelled as forces, with the state of an agent treated as a physical object within an abstract space representing narrative tension. Building off previous work, we implement a test-bed and scenario in the Unity Game Engine. We show, through experimentation, that the dynamic force-based model causes the emergence of conflict curves mirroring traditional narrative perspectives. We conclude that an abstract physical modelling of narrative agents is able to embed several desirable properties for emergent narratives, namely, continuous conflict, dynamic interpersonal relations and temporal and strength modelling of the impact of individual actions.

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abstract_inverted_index.mirroring	104
abstract_inverted_index.modelling	7, 114, 138
abstract_inverted_index.narrative	72, 106, 116
abstract_inverted_index.relations	29, 49, 133
abstract_inverted_index.approaches	14
abstract_inverted_index.conflicts.	36
abstract_inverted_index.continuous	129
abstract_inverted_index.individual	21, 143
abstract_inverted_index.modelling,	17
abstract_inverted_index.narratives	1
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abstract_inverted_index.force-based	96
abstract_inverted_index.narratives,	127
abstract_inverted_index.storyworld.	12
abstract_inverted_index.traditional	105
abstract_inverted_index.representing	71
abstract_inverted_index.interpersonal	28, 132
abstract_inverted_index.perspectives.	107
abstract_inverted_index.experimentation,	92
cited_by_percentile_year
countries_distinct_count	2
institutions_distinct_count	3
citation_normalized_percentile.value	0.25634327
citation_normalized_percentile.is_in_top_1_percent	False
citation_normalized_percentile.is_in_top_10_percent	False