TY - GEN
T1 - Tracery
T2 - 8th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2015
AU - Compton, Kate
AU - Kybartas, Ben
AU - Mateas, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - New communities of generative text practitioners are flourishing in novel expressive mediums like Twitterbots and Twine as well as the existing practices of Interactive Fiction. However, there are not yet reusable and extensible generative text tools that work for the needs of these communities. Tracery is an author-focused generative text tool, intended to be used by novice and expert authors, and designed to support generative text creation in these growing communities, and future ones. We identify the design considerations necessary to serve these new generative text authors, like data portability, modular design, and additive authoring, and illustrate how these considerations informed the design of the Tracery language. We also present illustrative case studies of existing projects that use Tracery as part of the art creation process.
AB - New communities of generative text practitioners are flourishing in novel expressive mediums like Twitterbots and Twine as well as the existing practices of Interactive Fiction. However, there are not yet reusable and extensible generative text tools that work for the needs of these communities. Tracery is an author-focused generative text tool, intended to be used by novice and expert authors, and designed to support generative text creation in these growing communities, and future ones. We identify the design considerations necessary to serve these new generative text authors, like data portability, modular design, and additive authoring, and illustrate how these considerations informed the design of the Tracery language. We also present illustrative case studies of existing projects that use Tracery as part of the art creation process.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951875107
SN - 9783319270357
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 154
EP - 161
BT - Interactive Storytelling - 8th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Louchart, Sandy
A2 - Schoenau-Fog, Henrik
A2 - Bruni, Luis Emilio
A2 - Baceviciute, Sarune
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 30 November 2015 through 4 December 2015
ER -