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Narrative Gold Digging: Sifting and Narrating Stories from a Procedural Simulation (Lessard et al. 2026)

Jonathan Lessard, Stephen Friedrich, Samuel Paré-Chouinard, and Leila Kosseim. 2026. Narrative Gold Digging: Sifting and Narrating Stories from a Procedural

Dramatic Situations for Emergent Narrative System Authorship (Lessard & Paré-Chouinard 2022)

Lessard, J., & Paré-Chouinard, S. (2022). Dramatic Situations for Emergent Narrative System Authorship. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Santa-Cruz

Automatic Interactive Documentation for Emergent Story Discovery (Lessard & Beauchesne 2022)

Lessard, J., & Beauchesne, A. Automatic Interactive Documentation for Emergent Story Discovery. Foundations of Digital Games 2022. Athens. Download pdf.

[Tutorial/Manual] Blabbeur - Adaptative Text Generation for Unity

What is Blabbeur? Imagine your game needs to display this text: Hey! This is just to say that Alex just

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,

A Force Dynamic Model of Narrative Agents (Kybartas et al. 2021)

Kybartas, Q., Verbrugge, C., & Lessard, J. (2021). A Force Dynamic Model of Narrative Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference

When the Fourth Layer Meets the Fourth Wall: The Case for Critical Game Retellings (Sych 2020)

Steven Sych. When the Fourth Layer Meets the Fourth Wall: The Case for Critical Game Retellings. Proceedings of ICIDS 2020.

Tension Space Analysis for Emergent Narrative (2020)

B. Kybartas, C. Verbrugge and J. Lessard, "Tension Space Anaylsis for Emergent Narrative," in IEEE Transactions on Games, doi: 10.1109/TG.2020.2989072.

Expressive Range Analysis of a Possible Worlds Driven Emergent Narrative System (2018)

Kybartas, Ben; Verbrugge, Clark; Lessard, Jonathan. « Expressive Range Analysis of a Possible Worlds Driven Emergent Narrative System ». In Proceedings of

Transparency or Opacity: Re-thinking Video Game Interfaces (2018)

A MDes thesis by Etienne Brunelle-LeclercDownload here Abstract This thesis presents the results of a two year research-creation project that