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We present Subject and Subjectivity, an exploratory conversational game where players are tasked with matching their friends with the ideal bachelor. The system uses a modal logic approach to modeling the narrative, based upon Marie-Laure Ryan’s possible worlds model for narrative [1]. The dialogue occurs in real-time and consists of navigating each character’s multiple and often conflicting world views. The system allows flexible character authoring, demonstrated by having the demo be playable with either hand-authored or procedurally generated characters. The demo serves as an early experiment into the use of possible worlds logic for interactive storytelling and dialogue systems.
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Kybartas, B., Verbrugge, C., Lessard, J. (2017). Subject and Subjectivity: A Conversational Game Using Possible Worlds. In: Nunes, N., Oakley, I., Nisi, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_37
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