Towards Automatic Generation of Storyline Aided by Collaborative Creative Design

Abstract

This paper proposes a new collaborative design on an educational platform that supports automatic game generation based on graph rules. The platform enables computer game researchers to analyze and discuss students’ needs and preferences. In this approach, the computer game is created on the basis of a layered graph representing the functional elements of the story, characters, locations, and objects. This layered graph is dynamic changed by graph rules whose sequence represents the player’s actions. The goal of the cooperative work that took place at the Jagiellonian University in Poland was to create, prepare and implement the plot of the adventure game in such a way as to design a set of singular player actions. A player in any game can use prepared actions in any number of tasks, sequentially and repeatedly, to create their own way to achieve the goal. All student work was placed in a system implemented on the base of Godot Engine, enabling the creation graph structures and graph rules as well as automatic generation of animations. At the final stage of the project, students have the opportunity to evaluate the game and analyze the narrative sequences, their length and objects used in the context of the story. In the future, our research can be also treated as a study of the preferences of computer game players obtained thanks to the suggestions of a selected group of people without professional or specialized knowledge in the field of computer game design.