The Garden of Forking Paths: Threading Narrative Archetype as a Semantic Signal Through Gameplay Planning

arXiv:2605.01245 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-05-02

Updated: 2026-09-13

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

Terminology

Archetype — 23× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Structural Constraints — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Affordance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Agent Interactions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Hybrid Approach — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes