INES: A reconstruction of the Charade storytelling system using the Afanasyev Framework

The present paper introduces INES (Interactive Narrative Emotional Storyteller), an instance of the Afanasyev story generation framework that rebuilds Charade, an agent-based storytelling system. The construction of INES pursues a double goal: to develop a more complete version of Charade, by including a plot generation stage; and to show the capability of Afanasyev as scaffolding for building united systems from sources of diverse kind. From a broad view, the resulting architecture is a microservice-oriented ecosystem in which every significant stage of the story generation process is implemented by a microservice that can be easily replaced by another, as long as the new microservice keeps the interface contract established by the Afanasyev model.

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