Comparison in time series of complex plot structures for role-playing game works

Abstract

In the automatic generation of stories, methods based on quantitative structure analysis have been tried. However, conventional objects are only short story patterns. Except for the genre of role-playing game (RPG), analysis and application of the complex plot structure which combines multiple short stories have hardly been carried out. Moreover, diversity and time series change of complex plot structure have not been clarified. In this study, we analyzed the narrative structure and made the data of the continuous, nested, and parallel relationships in multiple short stories. As a result of comparing between series of works, the features of each series were extracted. In addition to that, the features of the time series change of the complex plot structure were also clarified. The results of this research can be utilized as a basis for automatic plot generation of long and complex stories.