# Versu: A Simulationist Storytelling System

*Source* · `src-evans-2014-versu` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Peer-reviewed paper |
| authors | Richard Evans, Emily Short |
| venue | IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games 6(2) |
| date | 2014 |
| url | https://www.cs.uky.edu/~sgware/reading/papers/evans2014versu.pdf |
| accessed | 2026-10-24 |

## Notes

Social practices as reactive joint plans; agents score actions by simulating and undoing them against 300+ desires; exclusion logic; Praxis; 1,000+ parameterized actions; Facade comparison of 30 speech acts and 27 beats.

## Backlinks (computed)

**cited by:** [Façade](../game/facade.md), [Versu](../game/versu.md)

## Citation

Richard Evans, Emily Short (2014). *Versu: A Simulationist Storytelling System*. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games 6(2) https://www.cs.uky.edu/~sgware/reading/papers/evans2014versu.pdf

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