# Curating Simulated Storyworlds

*Source* · `src-ryan-2018-curating-simulated-storyworlds` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Technical report / blog |
| authors | James Ryan |
| venue | PhD dissertation in Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| date | 2018-12 |
| url | https://viv.sifty.studio/background/curating_simulated_storyworlds.pdf |
| accessed | 2026-10-28 |

## Notes

Curationist emergent narrative, story generation as recounting; overgenerate and curate; chronicler, story sifter, and narrativizer in feedforward and feedback variants; sifting patterns versus heuristics; causal bookkeeping; engines World, Talk of the Town, Hennepin and experiences Diol/Diel/Dial, Bad News, Sheldon County; conclusion names a narrativization bottleneck and proposes curation support frameworks. Also hosted at jamesryan.computer.

## Backlinks (computed)

**cited by:** [Story sifting with causal bookkeeping](../technique/story-sifting.md)

## Citation

James Ryan (2018-12). *Curating Simulated Storyworlds*. PhD dissertation in Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz https://viv.sifty.studio/background/curating_simulated_storyworlds.pdf

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