Abstract:
Many of us would like to create (or at least play) role playing games
(and other story based games) that are truly responsive to the
player's actions and choices in ways that have not been anticipated by
the games' authors. But how can we do this without having to solve the
complete Artificial Intelligence problem first?  I will suggest that
if we can 1) create a system that is elegant enough so that hundreds
or even thousands of authors can contribute story elements, and 2)
design an engine that can weave those elements together to create "a
world for each player", then we can crowd-source the AI content
creation process.  I will present a vision and and implementation sketch for
accomplishing all this.