SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PROCEDURAL SYSTEM FOR EMERGENT NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION

Number: 20180137092
Published: 2018-05-17
Filed: 2016-11-16
Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
Inventors: Murdock; Malcolm E.; Poswal; Mohammad; Hellam; Taylor; Di Zanni; Dario
CPC: G06F40/30; G06F40/186
Verdict: Medium Notable software
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

The keeper's note

Procedural emergent narrative construction.

Abstract

A user interface may be presented to a creator to facilitate the creation of narrative content. The user interface may be part of a system configured to generate recommendations pertaining to narrative content. The narrative content is meant to be experienced by users, e.g., in a virtual space. Feedback and/or other responses from the creator may be used to train and/or modify the generation of new recommendations. Feedback and/or other responses from the users may be used to train and/or modify the generation of new recommendations.

Background

FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE

This disclosure relates to generating recommendations pertaining to narrative content, in particular interactive narrative content to be generated in a virtual space.BACKGROUND

Providing interactive narrative content in a virtual space presents complex challenges. In particular, for “open world”-type virtual spaces, a large volume of narrative material is needed to support rich and meaningful user interaction. Fully manual processes are prohibitively time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive. Authoring complexity may scale dramatically with many interacting characters and longer narratives.SUMMARY

One aspect of the disclosure relates to a system configured to generate recommendations pertaining to narrative content to be generated in a virtual space and/or experienced by one or more users, e.g., in a virtual space and/or through other media suitable for content delivery. The system may be used by writers, creators, and/or other types of users jointly referred to as creative users. The users that experience the narrative content, e.g., in a virtual space or through other media, may be referred to as users, players, online users, online players, interactive users, and/or connected users.

Narrative content may be organized as narrative content sets having narrative features. A narrative content set may form the basis for a narrative experience to be generated in a virtual space. In some implementations, a narrative content set

Claims

1. A system configured to generate recommendations pertaining to narrative content to be generated in a virtual space, the system comprising: electronic storage configured to store electronic information, wherein the electronic information includes narrative information that is used to specify narrative features of narrative content sets, wherein the narrative content sets form bases for narrative experiences to be experienced by one or more users in the virtual space, the narrative features being associated with narrative feature types including one or more of a character type, an environment type, an object type, a plot point type, a character development type, an action type, and an objective type; and one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: aggregate user information, wherein the user information conveys user responses to narrative experiences in the virtual space that are experienced by the one or more users; generate a first recommendation for a first narrative content set that forms a first basis for a first narrative experience in the virtual space, the first narrative content set including a first set of narrative features, wherein generation of the first recommendation is based on the aggregated user information; and effectuate presentation to a creative user, via a user interface, of the first recommendation. 13. A method for generating recommendations pertaining to narrative content to be generated in a virtual space, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more physical processors and electronic storage storing machine-readable instructions, the method comprising: storing electronic information, wherein the electronic information includes narrative information that is used to specify narrative features of narrative content sets, wherein the narrative content sets form bases for narrative experiences to be experienced by one or more users in the virtual space, the narrative features being associated with narrative feature types including one or more of a character type, an environment type, an object type, a plot point type, a character development type, an action type, and an objective type; aggregating user information, wherein the user information conveys user responses to narrative experiences in the virtual space that are experienced by the one or more users; generating a first recommendation for a first narrative content set that forms a first basis for a first narrative experience in the virtual space, the first narrative content set including a first set of narrative features, wherein generation of the first recommendation is based on the aggregated user information; and effectuating presentation to a creative user, via a user interface, of the first recommendation.