AWSG (Automatic World and Story Generator) Project is an initiative that strives to meet the needs of a modern game developer. Procedural generation systems in games can be very complex and provide interesting content but usually have shallow and disconnected storylines. The technology that we develop is designed to connect the world and story generation into one immersive universe where quests and storylines are logical and engaging.

Technology focuses primarily on the relationship between the individual mechanical elements, creating a series of connections that will result in a world that is credible from the player’s perspective. Their point of view is extremely important to us, so while generating content the system will take into account what motivates the player to continue engaging with the gameworld and gameplay.

We decided to base the technology around motivation due to transparency and flexibility of those psychological mechanisms, which will prevent throwing the player into an endless loop of the same behavior. The game based on AWSG will react to the player’s readings by increasing the frequency of events related to a given motivation, as those can change – the game will follow new storylines and quests.

 

Our first product is planned to be a paragraph game with elements of exploration and environment interaction, however the AWSG system is applicable to other game genres as well.

Project is cofinanced by National Centre for Research and Development (Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju) and is conducted by Viabo Games (Bydgoszcz, Poland).