Chapter 15. Fate Makes the Storyworld Go ’Round
Brenda Laurel First Cooked Up the idea behind Fate. In her 1986 doctoral dissertation, she described a software agent she called “the Playwright.” Laurel specified 13 functions that the Playwright should execute:
• Model the plot in progress.
• Specify the formal characteristics of upcoming events.
• Change the storyworld.
• Modify the goals of characters.
• Access proposals for future actions of characters.
• Simulate these proposals to determine their effect on the plot.
• Evaluate the results of the simulations.
• Mandate future events.
• Formulate the script for the next event.
• Direct the characters.
• Control its own operation.
• Remember past events.
• Learn from past results.
Of course, ...
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