Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17027

Dejaboom! TextWorld mystery with five GPT-4 NPCs holding backstories, clues, and ordered goals; 28 players; GPT-4 turned logs into narrative graphs; 53 emergent nodes (43 unique) vs designer graph. About 15 s lag frustrated 40%; NPC forgetting 10%; repetition 10%.

LLM explanation of simulation state, LLM game master and narrative director