Declarative optimization-based drama management in interactive fiction

The use of declarative optimization-based drama management in interactive fictions is discussed. Many modern computer games have nonlinear plotlines with multiple endings, complex story branching and merging, and numerous plots. A drama manager is a system that watches the story as it progresses and reconfigures it to fill the goals of the author. Declarative optimization-based drama management is a positive approach that guides the player by projecting the possible future stories and reconfiguring the story world based on these projections. This approach models stories as a set of possible points, and evaluation of author's function rates the quality of a particular plot -point sequence. The approach for the future work is to develop the reinforcement-learning-based optimization approach and demonstration of its performance on a variety of the stories of significant sizes and complexity.