Abstract
We design and implement tools to support the creation of storytelling mazes. While the conventional process of creating storytelling mazes has been done on static media such as paper, this study develops computer-based tools and discusses their feasibility and usefulness. The process of creating storytelling mazes is complex, the creator have to make stories in parallel with the construction of the maze. Based on this complexity, we present a direction for creation support, and design interactive tools. Specifically, we propose a user interface that allows users to create works by moving back and forth between three blocks: making a story, placing it on the maze, and changing the maze parameters. We also propose a method to solve the maze placement of the story as an optimization problem by using a stochastic algorithm. We show some results actually created using the proposed tools and discuss usefulness.
