Minstrel remixed: a reconstruction and exploration

Over the course of my Ph.D. research I will explore how symbolic 'creative' systems can accomplish things in interactive storytelling and games that can't be accomplished by other systems. I can broadly split content generation systems to fit into two categories: those that assemble or resequence fixed pieces of content, and those that use genetic algorithm style explorations to generate content. The former tends to be limited in what it can produce while the latter is difficult to author and direct. In exploring 'creative' systems I hope to define a new category without these difficulties or find a way of improving the output of one of the existing categories. Additionally and more generally, I seek to investigate how we can construct and then evaluate 'creative' systems.