Four quantitative metrics describing narrative conflict

Authors:
Stephen G. Ware;R. Michael Young;Brent Harrison;David L. Roberts
Affiliations:
Digital Games Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;Digital Games Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;Digital Games Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;Digital Games Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Venue:
ICIDS'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Interactive Storytelling
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Conflict is an essential element of interesting stories. In previous work, we proposed a formal model of narrative conflict along with 4 quantitative dimensions which can be used to distinguish one conflict from another based on context: balance, directness, intensity, and resolution. This paper presents the results of an experiment designed to measure how well these metrics predict the responses of human readers when asked to measure these same values in a set of four stories. We conclude that our metrics are able to rank stories similarly to human readers for each of these four dimensions.