Systems and methods for a procedural system for emergent narrative construction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10990753-B2
Application number	US-201615353455-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2016
Priority date	Nov 16, 2016
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

A user interface may be presented to a creator to facilitate the creation of narrative content. The user interface may be part of a system configured to generate recommendations pertaining to narrative content. The narrative content is meant to be experienced by users, e.g., in a virtual space. Feedback and/or other responses from the creator may be used to train and/or modify the generation of new recommendations. Feedback and/or other responses from the users may be used to train and/or modify the generation of new recommendations.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system configured to generate recommendations pertaining to narrative content to be generated in a virtual space, the system comprising:
electronic storage configured to store electronic information, wherein the electronic information includes narrative information used to specify narrative features of individual narrative content, wherein combinations of the individual narrative content form narrative content sets, wherein the narrative content sets are experienced by users in the virtual space, wherein the narrative features are associated with narrative feature types including one or more of a character type, an environment type, an object type, a plot point type, a character development type, an action type, or an objective type, wherein the virtual space includes a three-dimensional topography and one or more virtual objects positioned within the three-dimensional topography that experience locomotion within the three-dimensional topography, and wherein the virtual space is presented to individual users on individual user interfaces displayed on individual computing platforms associated with the individual users, and wherein the individual users experience the narrative content sets by controlling individual virtual entities through the three-dimensional topography and/or interacting with the one or more virtual objects; and
one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
aggregate user information to generate aggregated user information, wherein the user information conveys prior user responses to the narrative content sets in the virtual space that have already been experienced by the users, such that the aggregated user information conveys an aggregate of the prior user responses;
generate recommendations for future narrative content sets different from the narrative content sets that have already been experienced by the users, the recommendations being based on the aggregated user information for the users, such that a first recommendation is generated for a first narrative content set in the virtual space, the first narrative content set including a first set of narrative features, wherein the generation of the first recommendation is based on the aggregated user information for a first user and a second user, wherein the aggregated user information for the first user and the second user includes the aggregate of the prior user responses to the narrative content sets by the first user and the second user;
effectuate presentation of the recommendations via a user interface through which a creative user provides feedback pertaining to the recommendations, wherein the creative user is different from the users who experience the narrative content sets, such that the first recommendation is presented via the user interface through which the creative user provides first feedback pertaining to the first recommendation, wherein the first feedback from the creative user includes one or more modifications to the first recommendation; and
generate the future narrative content sets based on the recommendations and the feedback from the creative user, such that the first narrative content set is generated based on the first recommendation and the first feedback from the creative user including the one or more modifications to the first recommendation.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured to:
obtain, from the electronic storage, the narrative information, wherein generation of the first recommendation is further based on the narrative information.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured to:
obtain a first implementation of the first narrative content set suitable for presentation to the users in the virtual space; and
effectuate presentation of the first narrative content set to the users in the virtual space.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured to:
aggregate additional user information that conveys user responses to the first narrative content set by the users; and
generate a second recommendation for a second narrative content set, the second narrative content set including a second set of narrative features, wherein generation of the second recommendation is based on the aggregate of the additional user information, and wherein the second set of narrative features is different from the first set of narrative features.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the additional user information conveys time spent by the users engaging with the first implementation.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured to receive user input from the creative user, wherein the user input defines the first feedback pertaining to the first recommendation.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the user input from the creative user includes a selection of the first recommendation from a set of recommendations.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the user input from the creative user includes the one or more modifications to the first recommendation including a modification of the first set of narrative features.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured to:
generate a second narrative content set based on the first recommendation and the first feedback from the creative user including the one or more modifications to the first recommendation, the second narrative content set including a second set of narrative features, wherein the second set of narrative features is different from the first set of narrative features.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the prior user responses include user interactions between the users and the virtual space.

11. The system of claim 3 , wherein the user information includes information that conveys user responses to the first narrative content set by the users, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured to:
obtain a reference implementation of a reference narrative content set suitable for presentation to the users in the virtual space;
effectuate presentation of the reference implementation of the reference narrative content set to the users in the virtual space;
aggregate reference user information that conveys user responses by the users to the reference narrative content set;
compare the aggregate of the reference user information to the aggregated user information; and
generate a second recommendation for a second narrative content set, the second narrative content set including a second set of narrative features, wherein the second recommendation is based on the comparison of the aggregate of the reference user information to the aggregated user information.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured to:
effectuate presentation of the second narrative content set to users in the virtual space;
aggregate additional user information that conveys user responses by the users to the second narrative content set,
wherein the second recommendation is further based on the additional user information.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the prior user responses convey virtual credit spent, credit spent, earnings by advertisers, or a combination thereof.

14. A method to generate recommendations pertaining to narrative content to be generated in a virtual space, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more physical processors and electronic storage storing machine-readable instructions, the method c

Assignees

• Disney Entpr Inc

Inventors

• Murdock Malcolm E
• Poswal Mohammad
• Hellam Taylor
• Di Zanni Dario

Classifications

• G06F40/30

  Semantic analysis · CPC title

• G06F40/186 Primary

  Templates · CPC title