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Procedural Level and Story Generation Using Tag-Based Content Selection

Jurie Horneman

38.1    Introduction

38.2    The Advantage of Simplicity

38.3    Case Study: Last Mysteries

38.4    Case Study: Mainframe and Choba

38.5    Decks

38.6    Other Case Studies

38.7    Extensions and Other Approaches

38.8    Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

38.1  Introduction

Content selection is something that happens frequently inside games. Abstract data structures need to reference “content”—a mesh, a bitmap, a sound effect, or a line of text—to become something concrete, like an enemy. We must build mechanisms that allow the program to refer to external content, so that nonprogrammers can work without having to modify and recompile code. At the most ...