Towards more meaningful interactive narrative with intelligent affective characters

摘要

Interactive emergent narrative uses affective agents to create stories, but these stories often lack a thematic direction. I propose an approach towards a modular system using reified theme objects which can point a story towards the author's intended direction while maintaining the autonomy of all involved agents. I describe my current progress using an authored story as a test case, leading towards my future work to create theme objects as a computational system.