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https://github.com/espadrine/storygen

Procedural generation of stories
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Procedural generation of stories

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A story is a sequence of events told with style. Their purpose is the meaning we

infer. They narrate actions upon objects, which both require a deep

understanding of words.



So we give each word a set of tags:

- Grammar tag: the grammatical classification, for which all have one.

- Set tags: indicate what the object is a subset of. A mammal is an animal.

- Group tag: indicate what the object is a group of, like a pack of wolves.

- Trait tags: adjectives that make that subset special. A mammal is

  warm-blooded.

- Action tags: verb (and optional end of sentence) that describe what that

  subset does. A mammal feeds milk to its young and has hair.



Once we have all those defined, we can create entities. Among humans, we can

define what they want to do and how they tend to act. They should have a list of

goals ordered by their importance, and a list of relationships (good or bad)

with other animals (primary humans). Those should be able to evolve, but slowly,

and at most twice over the course of a story.



A story is about a primary goal being reached. Then, that goal is cut into

smaller pieces that, added together, produce that goal. Each subgoal being

reached should enable the next: objects being obtained, secrets being learned,

goals and relationships being shifted. We distribute the ownership of those

objects, secrets, goals and relationships to thicken the plot.