arXiv:2606. 13348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational creativity in Interactive Fiction faces a fundamental tension: Large Language Models (LLM) may produce creative narratives but struggle with world coherence, while symbolic systems ensure consistency but lack creative flexibility.
By Micaela Vaucher, Santiago Silveira, Santiago G\'ongora, Luis Chiruzzo
The paper introduces Forking Garden, a branching game generation system that threads narrative archetype as a persistent semantic signal throughout the generation pipeline. Narrative progression is modeled with soft Rise/Fall states, guiding the creation of plot nodes, structural constraints, encounter composition, objectives, rewards, and difficulty adaptation. Experiments across ten storylines show that the system produces distinct archetypal trajectories, improves entity diversity, and that Rise/Fall distinctions remain meaningful during play, aiding both narrative understanding and creator interpretation.
By Yunge Wen, Chenliang Huang, Hangyu Zhou, Zhuo Zeng, Yuxuan Weng, Timothy Merino, Julian Togelius, Max Kreminski, Sam Earle
arXiv:2601.15295v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Interactive narrative (IN) authors craft spaces of divergent narrative possibilities for players to explore, with the player's input determin...
By Yi Wang, John Joon Young Chung, Melissa Roemmele, Yuqian Sun, Tiffany Wang, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Brett A. Halperin, Yuwen Lu, Max Kreminski
arXiv:2607. 00527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI now enables games to produce dialogue, quests, characters, images, and worlds at runtime.
By Zhiyue Xu, Fandi Meng, Kaijie Xu, Clark Verbrugge, Simon Lucas, Jian Zhao
arXiv:2607. 00918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive creative fiction generation, they struggle to maintain narrative consistency and coherent plot lines in long-form stories.
By Aayush Aluru, Chloe Ho, Muhammad Hammouri, Kerry Luo, Myra Malik, Ryan Lagasse, Arjun Bahuguna, Vasu Sharma
arXiv:2606. 16014v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many games rely on storytelling combined with systems that track levelling, NPC behaviour, and consequence simulation; bridging tightly-authored narrative with deeply-simulated worlds -- most acute in sandbox and open-world settings -- has been prohibitively expensive.
By Yuhang Huang, Chenmiao Li, Chaowei Fang