Story = Theorem

One of my goals of this project is to have a story be spit out in the same way a theorem is proved or a the next move of a chess game is computed by searching lots of possibilities. There’s also an element of probability that needs to come in to play too, of course. (If everything were 100% deterministic, you’d get the same story each time.)

Here are a couple of resources I found that might help in modeling all of this. I’m not sure whether they’re too low-level for what I’m trying to accomplish, though:

Personality Types

I think the next step after random name generation is assigning a personality type to each of the generated characters. I’ve found this, which appears to be a good start:

http://www.personalitypage.com/high-level.html

Hopefully I won’t run afoul of any copyright laws using this internally.

Once a personality type is assigned, then different world events can trigger different reactions based on personality type. Also, a character needs to have goals which are consistent with their personality type. Not sure how I’m going to do this yet.