The Virtual Storyteller

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Introduction

A story generator based on the concept of emergent narrative, i.e., stories produced by autonomous characters and no target plots

Installation

The Virtual Storyteller currently only runs on MS Windows machines (tested on Windows XP).
  1. Install SWI-Prolog (5.6.37 or higher) from http://www.swi-prolog.org
  2. Copy the whole SWI-Prolog directory (by default: C:\Program Files\pl) so that the following directory structure occurs: 
    
\[MyDir]
    \VirtualStoryteller
        \bin
        \src
        \lib
        ...
    \SWI-Prolog-JPL
        \pl

Running

Running the class vs.AgentLauncher yields the platform from which to operate the Virtual Storyteller. Executing run.bat will launch this class as a Java application. Before you start ANY agent, first start the JADE platform. You can do both with a button in the GUI.

Recommendations

For working with the Virtual Storyteller, we recommend installing the latest version of the Protégé ontology editor (http://protege.stanford.edu/) which you can use to edit the ontology files included in the Virtual Storyteller. Furthermore, we recommend working with Eclipse using the Prolog plugin ProDT (http://prodevtools.sourceforge.net/) if you want to make modifications to the source or author new story domains.