Minstrel Remixed: Procedurally Generating Stories

The first major story generation system, which preceded Minstrel and which While ongoing progress in digital entertainment also received significant attention, is Tale-Spin (Meehan technology continues, commercial designers still largely 1977). Like Minstrel, this system generates stories which eschew systems for procedural story generation, preferring satisfy user-submitted requirements. Tale-Spin creates instead to generate content by hand. In the academic English stories by planning a method for the main literature, projects such as (Appling & Riedl 2009, Roberts character to achieve her or his goal, using inferences and & Isbell 2009) continue to investigate ways to improve the rules to generate a large number of details about a story nuances of interactive storytelling while others attempt to (many of which do little contribute to an audience create their own systems to investigate ways to use experience). This contrasts nicely with Minstrel, which knowledge from interactive narrative and story generation performs no logical inferences and which performs all in new fields such as playable games (Drachen & Hitchens actions from the point of view of an author, manipulating et al. 2009, Sullivan, Mateas & Wardrip-Fruin 2009).