Guided Interactive Content Authoring via Automated Conflict Resolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches to producing interactive content fail to create complex narrative structures while enabling significant user interaction, often resulting in either strong narrative experiences with limited interaction opportunities or simple interactive experiences with complex narratives, due to the rapid growth of authoring complexity with the number of story arcs and interaction possibilities.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for guided authoring of interactive content that uses automation to facilitate the creation of free-form interactive narratives with multiple story arcs, employing Interactive Behavior Trees (IBTs) and automation tools to detect and resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, allowing for the generation of complex and highly interactive content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional approaches use linear plots with isolated interactive segments, then narrative consistency is maintained, but user interaction opportunities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the narrative into modular story arcs that can be independently authored and recombined. Each story arc is a self-contained unit with defined entry and exit points, allowing multiple arcs to be woven together to create complex branching narratives while maintaining internal consistency within each arc.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authoring system that automatically manages the complexity of connecting story arcs and interaction points. This system uses behavior trees and automated consistency checking to mediate between the author's creative intent and the technical requirements of maintaining narrative coherence across multiple branching paths.
2Adaptability or versatility
If branching narratives are implemented with user decisions influencing storyline, then user interaction opportunities increase, but authoring complexity grows rapidly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the complex branching narrative into manageable story arc segments. Each arc is authored independently with controlled interaction points, reducing the cognitive load on authors while still enabling complex overall narratives through systematic recombination of these segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the authoring process by changing parameters from manual narrative construction to automated generation using behavior trees and computational models. This allows the system to handle exponential branching complexity through algorithmic management rather than manual authoring.
Solution Approach 3:
The authoring system incorporates automated consistency checking and conflict resolution that operates autonomously to maintain narrative integrity. The system serves itself by automatically detecting and resolving inconsistencies in the branching narrative structure without requiring manual intervention at each decision point.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple story arcs and interaction possibilities are added to increase user agency, then user participation improves, but narrative consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary automated system that acts as a guardian of narrative consistency. This system continuously monitors the branching narrative structure, detects conflicts and inconsistencies across multiple story arcs, and resolves them automatically or flags them for author review, thereby maintaining reliability despite increased complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the authoring system automatically analyzes the narrative structure for inconsistencies and provides real-time feedback to authors. This closed-loop system allows authors to maintain multiple story arcs and interaction possibilities while receiving continuous guidance to preserve narrative coherence.
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AI summary
There are provided systems and methods for guided authoring of interactive content. A content generation system enabling such guided authoring includes a system processor, a system memory, and an interactive content authoring engine stored in the system memory. The system processor is configured to execute the interactive content authoring engine to receive data corresponding to an interactive content through an authoring interface of the interactive content authoring engine, and to detect at least one of an inconsistency in the interactive content and a possible conflict arising from a user interaction with the interactive content. The system processor is further configured to to execute the interactive content authoring engine to identify at least one solution for each inconsistency and/or possible conflict, and to resolve the inconsistency or inconsistencies and the possible conflict(s) to enable generation of a substantially conflict and inconsistency free interactive content.