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The What-If Machine

Website: horizon-magazine.eu/creative-computation-and-what-if-machine_en

The What-If Machine is a software system that invents and evaluates stories. This paper explores how the What-If Machine can be a creative collaborator in game design.

The system could ‘dynamically propose ideas that play off [the human designer’s game design or narrative] and push back against the player.’ For example, ‘the player might try and swing the narrative in favour of the hero by inventing new characters or events – perhaps they suggest that the hero finds a sword in a cave… [The What-If Machine may] respond to the player by making the sword blunt, and therefore useless for cutting things.’

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Game Design, Storytelling/Narrative

FLOW OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS:
COMPUTER HUMAN Ideate Constrain Produce Suggest Select Assess Adapt How to read this graph?