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Blabbeur – An Accessible Text Generation Authoring System for Unity (2021)

Lessard, J., & Kybartas, Q. (2021). Blabbeur—An Accessible Text Generation Authoring System for Unity. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Tallinn. (Download PDF Article)

Blabbeur is a text generation plugin for Unity that was developed for Chroniqueur emergent narrative project

Get it

It can be downloaded here: https://bitbucket.org/lablablab/blabbeur/

Video Presentation

Features

Easy to learn
Context-aware
Generative
Easy to troubleshoot
Integrated in Unity
Version-control friendly
Support collaborative authoring

Syntax

Excerpt from a Blabbeur grammar le used to generate accident descriptions.

Symbols: followed by colons describe a text fragment
[Symbols] in brackets are recursively resolved
Symbols separated by ; will be randomly picked
Symbols preceded by {conditions in curly brackets} can only be picked if the condition is met.
<Variables> in square brackets are resolved as their values.

Unity integration

A Blabbeur dictionary is created with the variables necessary for a specific request
The grammar name and the property dictionary is passed to the Blabbeur Singleton which returns a string.

Test environment

A Unity scene is provided to test Blabbeur grammars
Authors can quickly try multiple value combinations to test the consistency of outputs.