Reconstructing Persistent Worlds from Narratives for Narrative-Grounded Interactive Experiences

arXiv:2608.04037 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.GR, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-08-03 · Read on arXiv

Yi-Chun Chen

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.GR, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-08-03

Code: https://github.com/RimiChen/2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Consistency — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Procedural Content Generation — 8× in this paper
• Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Coherence — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 4× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Planner — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Temporal Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• A Controllable Co-Creative Agent for Game System Design
• World-State Transformations for Neuro-symbolic Interactive Storytelling
• An Ontology of Co-Creative AI Systems
• Word2World: Generating Stories and Worlds through Large Language Models
• STORY2GAME: Generating (Almost) Everything in an Interactive Fiction Game

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