Quest to Dungeon (QtD): Towards a Tool that Supports Collaboration between Narrative and Level Designers
2025 (English)In: EXAG-INT 2025: Experimental AI in Games and Intelligent Narrative Technologies 2025: Proceedings of the Joint AIIDE Workshops on Experimental AI in Games and Intelligent Narrative Technologies (EXAG-INT 2025) co-located with the 21st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2025) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, November 10-11, 2025., CEUR-WS , 2025, Vol. 4090Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Quest to Dungeon (QtD) is a tool designed to bridge the gap between narrative design and procedural level generation in games, two processes that are typically developed in isolation from each other. QtD connects narrative design with level design by enabling designers to create quests by combining tasks in a grid interface, where each narrative task automatically generates corresponding dungeon rooms using task-specific algorithms. We evaluated QtD through a user study (N=8) where all participants created first a quest with two endings, and then a quest without constraints. Our results showed that participants found the tool intuitive and effective in visualizing how narrative objectives translate into level design. QtD helped enable faster iteration cycles for the participants, who speculated about its possible benefits for collaboration and communication between narrative and level designers.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
CEUR-WS , 2025. Vol. 4090
Series
Ceur Workshop Proceedings, E-ISSN 1613-0073
Keywords [en]
Challenges in Game Development, Procedural Content Generation, Quest Design, Quest-Driven Generation
National Category
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-83976Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105036885074OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-83976DiVA, id: diva2:2057164
Conference
2025 Joint AIIDE Workshops on Experimental AI in Games and Intelligent Narrative Technologies, EXAG-INT 2025, 10-11 Nov 2025, Alberta, Canada
2026-05-042026-05-042026-05-27Bibliographically approved