Procedural Storytelling

Definitions

"Procedural storytelling, replayable game narratives that dynamically change given player actions."

- Quote from https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025421/Teaching-Procedural

Articles & links

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025421/Teaching-Procedural

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/263303/3_lessons_on_procedural_storytelling_from_Moon_Hunters.php

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ev4yv4/three-violent-minutes-with-a-game-that-remembers-why-it-hates-you

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/12/how-rimworld-generates-great-stories/?fbclid=IwAR00-YgRp55KZwD-SC0Yc50Dj8aV12LuR-lMQL1R3j39K3eZnV4GI6A6luA

http://thespelunkyshowlike.libsyn.com/13-procedural-storytelling-with-tanya-x-short?fbclid=IwAR3fG8mO3a8xcmnspo8HNL81oVtzx4BTg89vSrCWcLWgvLGm7VM_ysW3owA

Tools

Narrative toolkit: "The Narrative Toolkit is designed as an aid for making any narrative. It consists of 68 cards including Propp, Rodari, Vogler, Jung and Campbell’s concepts, all of which make up the Hero’s Journey. This toolkit helps any person to design his own structure for creating narratives, speeches, group dynamics, business reports, etc.

https://toolkits.eu/tienda/toolkits-en/159/?lang=en

Examples of procedural storytelling

Facade - Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern

"an artificial intelligence-based experiment in electronic narrative"

https://games.softpedia.com/get/Freeware-Games/Facade.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bpCL-eUsDU&fbclid=IwAR2Iu7hrRl18Bz29S_13hcKxf94TsBBUMwnGHoM2kvANrhzWLqmeJQy87Fk

Long Live the Queen - Spiky Caterpillar

https://www.pcgamer.com/long-live-the-queen-review/

Examples of procedural storytelling in video games

Dwarf Fortress https://www.timdenee.com/bronzemurder

Shadow of Mordor - Monolith Productions

FTL: Faster Than Light - Subset games