Emergent narratives provide a unique and compelling approach to interactive storytelling through simulation, and have applications in games, narrative generation, and virtual agents. However, the inherent complexity of simulation makes understanding the expressive potential of emergent narratives difficult, particularly at the design phase of development. In this article, we present a novel approach to emergent narrative using the narratological theory of possible worlds and demonstrate how the design of works in such a system can be understood through a formal means of analysis inspired by expressive range analysis. Last, we propose a novel way through which content may be authored for the emergent narrative system using a sketch-based interface.

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新兴叙事的张力空间分析


新兴叙事通过模拟提供了一种独特且引人入胜的交互式叙事方法，并在游戏、叙事生成和虚拟代理中得到应用。然而，模拟固有的复杂性使得理解新兴叙事的表达潜力变得困难，特别是在开发的设计阶段。在本文中，我们使用可能世界的叙事学理论提出了一种新的涌现叙事方法，并展示了如何通过受表达范围分析启发的形式分析手段来理解这样一个系统中的作品设计。最后，我们提出了一种新颖的方法，通过该方法可以使用基于草图的界面为新兴叙事系统创作内容。