Dungeon on the Move: A Case Study of a Procedurally Driven Narrative Project in Progress

Dungeon on the Move is a single-player casual mobile game dungeon crawler in development, in which the dungeon itself is in flux – rooms change, they disappear, and even the room the player is trying to reach won’t stay still. This paper concerns a case study of an in-development project that seeks to explore the creative opportunities in blending a procedurally generated dungeon with a partially procedurally generated story. It explores the research question: How might we design a simple digital dungeon crawler utilizing a procedurally driven narrative that offers some promise of innovation? It provides a brief explanation of terms then explores details of the development, anticipated difficulties, with a view to next steps on the project.

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   Maurice Suckling, Fanghong Dong, Rachel Mailhot, Kirsten Pilla, Samuel Gould, Yi Ning, Yizhe Wu, Leonardo Price, and Yueqing Dai.

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1. RPI, Troy, NY, 12180, USA

   Maurice Suckling

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Correspondence to Maurice Suckling .

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1. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

   Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera

2. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

   Anne Sullivan

3. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

   R. Michael Young

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