Rubén Buren

Toward Ludic-Aware Narrative Generation: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Evaluating Playability in LLM-Generated Backstories

Large Language Models produce fluent prose, but for interactive media they tend to generate narratively sterile backstories whose conflicts are all resolved before play begins: the Closure Paradox. Conventional metrics, from n-gram overlap to retrieval-augmented faithfulness, do not reward openness. We propose a dual-a...