Searching Playtrace Data to Identify and Evaluate Dramatic Arcs in Game Systems

Samuel Shields, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Edward F. Melcer. Searching Playtrace Data to Identify and Evaluate Dramatic Arcs in Game Systems. In María Cecilia Reyes, Frank Nack, editors, Interactive Storytelling - 18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2025, Saint Julian, Malta, December 1-5, 2025, Proceedings, Part II. Volume 16375 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 385-395, Springer, 2025. [doi]

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  title = {Searching Playtrace Data to Identify and Evaluate Dramatic Arcs in Game Systems},
  author = {Samuel Shields and Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Edward F. Melcer},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_23},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_23},
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  pages = {385-395},
  booktitle = {Interactive Storytelling - 18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2025, Saint Julian, Malta, December 1-5, 2025, Proceedings, Part II},
  editor = {María Cecilia Reyes and Frank Nack},
  volume = {16375},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  publisher = {Springer},
  isbn = {978-3-032-12405-0},
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