JP6694217B2 - Scenario plot generation device and scenario plot generation method - Google Patents

Description

  The present disclosure relates to a scenario plot generation device and a scenario plot generation method.

  In recent years, the game market has expanded worldwide due to the expansion of the PC game and smartphone game markets. The expansion of the game market has led to an increase in the number of game productions, and the amount of scenarios required for the game industry as a whole is increasing. For example, there are many games in which sub-stories are developed in addition to the main story because the game volume increases due to the increase in the recording capacity of the hardware. Patent Document 1 discloses "a game device that changes the development of a game in accordance with the progress of a plurality of games".

JP, 2001-204966, A

  As mentioned above, while the number of scenario writers required for the entire game industry is increasing, the number of scenario writers is not actually increasing due to the decrease in the working population. Therefore, not only is the burden on each scenario writer increasing, but it is becoming difficult to secure the necessary scenarios.

  The present disclosure has been made in view of the above points, and provides a technique capable of easily creating a plot of a scenario.

  In order to solve the above problems, a scenario plot generation device that generates a scenario plot of a story consisting of a plurality of phases, wherein a tag input reception unit that receives input of a plurality of tags that are elements of the scenario plot, and the scenario Obtaining a block corresponding to each phase of the scenario plot from at least a part of the plurality of tags received by the tag input receiving unit from a recording unit in which a plurality of blocks that are samples of each phase of the plot are recorded And a scenario plot generation unit that generates the scenario plot based on a plurality of blocks acquired by the block acquisition unit.

  According to the present disclosure, scenario plots can be easily created.

It is a figure for demonstrating a 13 phase structure. It is a figure which shows the specific example of the sentence contained in each phase of a scenario plot. It is a figure which shows the structure of the scenario plot generation apparatus of embodiment. It is the figure which showed the specific example of the tag given to a block. It is a flow chart of processing which a scenario plot generation device performs. It is a figure which shows the example of a setting file.

[Overview]
When a plurality of tags for generating a scenario plot are input, the scenario plot generation device of the present disclosure selects a block (sample corresponding to each phase of the scenario) recorded in the database, synthesizes the block, and the scenario plot generation device. To generate. Here, the “scenario plot” means a set of constituent elements that make up a story, and includes, for example, causal relation of the story and information about the setting of the story.

  In the present specification, the 13-phase structure will be described below as an example of the scenario plot type, but the scenario plot type is not limited to this. The scenario plot type may be a three-act structure, or may be a structure composed of fewer or more than 13 phases. Before describing the scenario plot generation device of the embodiment, first, a scenario plot having a 13-phase structure will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the 13-phase structure. In FIG. 1, a list of headings for each phase and a brief description of each phase is shown. In a scenario having a 13-phase structure, the story is completed through 13 phases. The 13 phases will be briefly described below.
1st phase: The daily life of the protagonist is depicted 2nd phase: An abnormality occurs in the protagonist's daily life 3rd phase: The protagonist decides to get out of the current environment 4th phase: The protagonist is in trouble Fifth phase in which you have to overcome the situation: The hero receives hints from the supporter to eliminate the adversary Sixth phase: The trial that the hero grows appears Seventh phase: The hero grows The 8th phase where the clue to eliminate an adversary is found: The 9th phase where the hero confronts the adversary: The 10th phase where the hero enjoys pseudo-death: The hero is in crisis Eleventh phase to obtain measures to avoid the above: 12th phase in which the hero makes a final decisive battle with the adversary: 13th phase in which the hero makes the right choice and obstacles are eliminated Figure: here the order in the environment surrounding the hero is restored, usually, the seventh phase of is called the mid-point, is a phase in which the turning point of the story. The number of people in a story is often the highest at midpoint.

Subsequently, in order to facilitate understanding of the present disclosure, a specific example of each phase is shown in FIG. 2.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a specific example of sentences included in each phase of scenario plotting. A description of each specific sentence shown in FIG. 2 is omitted. The scenario plot generation device of the embodiment generates a scenario plot having the above 13 phases.

<Embodiment>
[Configuration of scenario plot generation device]
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of the scenario plot generation device 1 of the embodiment. The scenario plot generation device 1 includes an input device 1, a recording unit 12, a display unit 13, and a control unit 14. The input unit 11 is, for example, a keyboard. The user can input a plurality of tags, which are elements of the scenario plot, via the keyboard. Alternatively, the user may input the tag by selecting the tag while looking at the screen displayed on the display unit 13. The tags will be described later.

  The recording unit 12 is, for example, an SSD (Solid State Drive), and records the program executed by the control unit 14 and a plurality of blocks that are samples of each phase of the scenario plot. The block recorded in the recording unit 12 is a block in which a plurality of scenario plots having a 13-phase structure are created in advance, and these are decomposed for each phase and recorded. A tag is added to each block, and the scenario plot generation device 1 selects a block based on the tag input by the user and generates a scenario plot. Here, the tag added to the block is added by the user in accordance with the content of each phase when the scenario plot sample is created, for example. The tag given to the block may be automatically generated by morphological analysis of the sentence in the block.

  The types of tags added to blocks include, for example, a tag related to a phase number indicating which phase the block corresponds to, a tag related to a story era, a tag related to a genre of a story, a tag related to an age of a hero of a story, a hero. There are tags related to occupations, tags related to events that cause the hero to take action, tags related to the story stage, tags related to the ending of the story, and tags related to life and death of the hero. In addition, a block is recorded by associating the subject and the verb included in the sentence in the block.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a specific example of tags added to blocks. For example, when generating a scenario plot, the user selects a tag from the tag list shown in FIG. 4 and inputs it to the scenario plot generation device 1. The scenario plot generation device 1 selects a block, for example, based on the degree of matching between the tag input by the user and the tag assigned to the block.

  The control unit 14 is, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and functions as the tag input reception unit 15, the block acquisition unit 16, and the scenario plot generation unit 17 by executing the program recorded in the recording unit 12.

  The tag input receiving unit 15 receives inputs of a plurality of tags that are elements of the scenario plot. The tag is selected from a set of tags assigned to each block when the block is recorded in the recording unit 12, for example. Therefore, the tag input reception unit 15 may, for example, include a tag related to the phase number, a tag related to the age of the protagonist of the story, a tag related to the occupation of the protagonist, a tag related to the event that causes the protagonist to take action, a tag related to the stage of the story, and a story. It accepts tags about the age, tags about the genre of the story, tags about the ending of the story, and tags about the life and death of the protagonist.

  The block acquisition unit 16 acquires a block corresponding to each phase of the scenario plot from the recording unit based on at least a part of the plurality of tags received by the tag input reception unit 15. The block acquisition unit 16 acquires, for example, a block to which a tag matching at least a part of the plurality of tags received by the tag input reception unit 15 is attached.

  The blocks recorded in the recording unit 12 are recorded based on scenario plots of different times and genres. Therefore, if 13 scenarios are randomly selected and a scenario plot is generated, inconsistencies may occur in the story and the story may be uncomfortable. In order for the scenario plot to be established as a story without a sense of incongruity, for example, when selecting 13 blocks, it is possible to avoid the above problems by requesting that the tags of a specific type match the tags input by the user. ..

  For example, the block acquisition unit 16 preferentially selects and acquires, from among the plurality of tags received by the tag input reception unit 15, a block in which a tag having a high priority and a tag assigned thereto match. The tag with a high priority refers to, for example, a tag in which the order of matching with the tag assigned to the block is earlier among the plurality of tags input by the user. For example, when the tag A has a higher priority than the tag B, the block acquisition unit 16 first selects the block to which the tag A is added, and then the tag B is further added from the selected blocks. Select the block that has

  The tag priority is adjusted, for example, so that a natural scenario plot that does not feel strange when being read is generated. A scenario plot that does not cause a sense of incongruity is a scenario plot in which there is no jump in the story and there is no contradiction. In order to generate a scenario plot with no discomfort, for example, it is desirable that the phase number matches the phase number assigned to the block. Also, it is desirable that the entered era and the era given to the block match. Further, it is desirable that the input genre and the genre assigned to the block match.

  Therefore, for example, the block acquisition unit 16 selects and acquires a block in which the tag regarding the phase number input by the user and the tag regarding the assigned phase number are the same. Further, the block acquisition unit 16 selects and acquires, for example, a block in which the tag related to the age of the story input by the user and the tag related to the added age are the same. Also, the block acquisition unit 16 preferentially selects and acquires a block in which the tag related to the genre input by the user and the tag related to the added genre are the same.

  For example, the block acquisition unit 16 preferentially selects and acquires a block in which tags assigned in order of a tag related to a phase number, a tag related to an era, and a tag related to a genre are matched. By doing so, it is easy to generate a scenario plot with no discomfort.

  Further, as described above, in the scenario plot having the 13-phase structure, the seventh phase is called a midpoint and is a turning point of the story. Consistency of the story is especially desirable for this midpoint and the phases before and after it.

  The block acquisition unit 16 may select and acquire at least the blocks corresponding to the sixth phase, the seventh phase, and the eighth phase, to which the tags to which the phase numbers match are added. In this way, a scenario plot is created that keeps the story consistent before and after the midpoint.

  The scenario plot generation unit 17 generates a scenario plot based on the plurality of blocks acquired by the block acquisition unit 16. When the scenario plot in which the blocks acquired by the block acquisition unit 16 are arranged is not a meaningful story, the scenario plot generation unit 17 may correct the scenario plot. The correction performed by the scenario plot generation unit 17 will be described below.

  For example, the scenario plot generation unit 17 replaces a noun of a sentence including a character indicating the name of the main character of the story with another noun in the block acquired by the block acquisition unit 16. For example, when the name of the main character is "A", the scenario plot generation unit 17 replaces "boy" with another noun in the sentence "A was helped by a boy."

  The name of the hero may be the name of the person present in the first phase (usually represented by one capital letter of the alphabet), or may be the hero's name when the user enters a tag. You may enter the name. In addition, the noun after replacement is, for example, in a block with the same tag as the tag related to the phase number, the tag related to the era of the story, and the tag related to the genre of the story, which is added to the block containing the sentence. Select from included nouns. In this way, the sentence after replacement tends to be a sentence that matches the story in the scenario plot.

  In the block acquired by the block acquisition unit 16, the scenario plot generation unit 17 does not include a verb corresponding to the pronoun's noun in a sentence including a character indicating the name of the protagonist of the story, or When the character indicating the name does not exist in the block, a template sentence explaining the action of the main character of the story may be inserted in the block.

  Specifically, for example, as a result of morphological analysis, when the character indicating the name of the hero appears as the object instead of the subject, or when the character indicating the name of the hero does not exist in the block, the scenario The plot generation unit 17 inserts a template sentence explaining the action of the main character of the story into the block. As the template sentence that describes the action of the main character of the story, for example, a template sentence that matches a tag (for example, a tag that indicates a phase number) assigned to the block is selected.

  The scenario plot generation unit 17 includes, for example, characters present in the sixth block corresponding to the sixth phase, the seventh block corresponding to the seventh phase, and the eighth block corresponding to the eighth phase. Is not present in the first block corresponding to the first phase to the fifth block corresponding to the fifth phase, at least one of the first block to the fifth block Add a sentence that includes characters that indicate the name of the character.

  In other words, when the person who appeared in the phases before and after the midpoint does not appear in any of the first phase to the fifth phase, the scenario plot generation unit 17 sets the character to the first phase to the fifth phase. Make it appear in the phase. In this way, the story that does not seem uncomfortable because the characters who have not appeared before will not suddenly appear in the phases before and after midpoint.

  In addition, the scenario plot generation unit 17 determines that the characters indicating the names of the characters who do not exist in the sixth block, the seventh block, and the eighth block are any of the first block to the fifth block, for example. If there is one, the characters indicating the names of the characters in the first to fifth blocks are replaced with the characters indicating the names of the characters existing in the sixth to eighth blocks.

  In other words, when the person who appeared in any of the first to fifth phases does not appear in the phases before and after the midpoint, the scenario plot generation unit 17 determines that person as the person who appears in the phases before and after the midpoint. replace. In this way, the maximum number of characters before and after the midpoint can be adjusted, and the midpoint can be adjusted to be an important turning point in the story.

  In addition, the scenario plot generation unit 17, for example, the characters indicating the names of the characters that do not exist in the sixth block, the seventh block, and the eighth block are the ninth block and subsequent blocks corresponding to the ninth phase. If the character exists in any one of the blocks, the characters indicating the names of the characters are changed to the characters indicating the names of the characters existing in the sixth block to the eighth block in the blocks after the ninth block. Replace.

  In other words, the scenario plot generation unit 17 replaces the person who appears in any of the phases after the ninth phase in the phases before and after the midpoint with the person who appears in the phases before and after the midpoint. In this way, the maximum number of characters before and after the midpoint can be adjusted, and the midpoint can be adjusted to be an important turning point in the story.

  In addition, the scenario plot generation unit 17 determines whether or not a predetermined word is included in the first block to the thirteenth block, and when the word is not included in any block, the morphological analysis is performed. Alternatively, a word having the same part of speech as the word may be replaced with the word. By doing this, you can include the nouns and verbs that you want to appear in the scenario plot.

[Flowchart of processing executed by scenario plot generation device]
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of processing executed by the scenario plot generation device 1. Each process of the flowchart will be described below.
(S501)
The tag input acceptance unit 15 accepts a tag input by the user.
(S502)
The block acquisition unit 16 selects and acquires a block based on the tag received by the tag input reception unit 15.
(S503)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 determines whether a predetermined word is included in the first block to the thirteenth block. If YES in S503, the flow proceeds to S505. If NO in S503, the flow proceeds to S504.
(S504)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 replaces the word in the block with a predetermined word.
(S505)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 determines whether or not there is a verb corresponding to the noun indicating the name of the hero. If YES in S505, the process proceeds to S507. If NO in S505, proceed to S506.
(S506)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 inserts a template statement prepared in advance into a block.
(S507)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 determines whether the person who appears in Phase 6 to Phase 8 appears in Phase 1 to Phase 5. If YES in S507, the process proceeds to S509. If NO in S507, the flow proceeds to S508.
(S508)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 adds a sentence including a character indicating the name of a character to at least one of the first block to the fifth block.
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The scenario plot generation unit 17 determines whether a person who does not appear in Phase 6 to Phase 8 appears in Phase 1 to Phase 5. If YES in S509, the process proceeds to S510. If NO in S509, the flow proceeds to S511.
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The scenario plot generation unit 17 replaces the characters indicating the names of the characters in the first block to the fifth block with the characters indicating the names of the characters present in the sixth block to the eighth block.
(S511)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 determines whether a person who does not appear in Phase 6 to Phase 8 appears in Phase 9 or later. If YES in S511, the process proceeds to S512. If NO in S511, the process proceeds to S513.
(S512)
In the blocks after the ninth block, the scenario plot generation unit 17 replaces the characters indicating the names of the characters with the characters indicating the names of the characters present in the sixth to eighth blocks.
(S513)
The scenario plot generation unit 17 outputs a scenario plot.

[setting file]
The scenario plot generation device 1 of the present disclosure may output the setting file together with the output of the scenario plot. The setting file is, for example, a list of tags input by the user.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the setting file. As shown in Fig. 6, the setting file has four items, "world view / background setting", "synopsis outline", "main person / important item", and "attractive points", and tags for each item The type of tag and the specific tag name you entered are described. The "attractive point" is a point that the recipient of the story, which is also input when the user inputs the tag, is felt. The user can confirm from what input tag the scenario plot was generated by referring to the setting file.

[Summary]
As described above, when a plurality of tags for generating a scenario plot are input, the scenario plot generation device 1 of the present disclosure selects and combines blocks recorded in the database to generate a scenario plot. By using the device, the user can easily and quickly obtain scenario plots of games, plays, novels and the like. Also, the user can create a scenario that cannot be conceived by himself by inspiration from the scenario plot generated by the device.

<Modification 1>
In the description of the embodiment, the block acquisition unit 16 selects a block in which the tag input by the user and the assigned tag match. When the user wants to create a scenario of a type different from the scenario that he or she usually creates, the block acquisition unit 16 may be set to select a block to which a tag different from the input tag is added. By doing so, a scenario plot having a tendency different from the scenario that the user normally creates is generated.

<Modification 2>
In the description of the embodiment, the tag input receiving unit 15 is configured to receive the tag input by the user. As another form, the tag input receiving unit 15 may be configured to extract a tag by analyzing a sentence input by the user by a known natural language processing method.

<Modification 3>
In the description of the embodiment, the user inputs a tag via the input device 11 connected to the scenario plot generation device 1, and outputs the scenario plot on the display unit 13 also connected to the scenario plot generation device 1. It was a mode to confirm the result. The service according to the scenario plot generation method of the present disclosure may be provided by a server / client method.

  In that case, for example, the scenario plot generation device 1 of the embodiment is a server, and is communicably connected to a client (smartphone or personal computer) used by the user. Further, the tag input reception unit 15 receives and receives the tag input by the user at the client, and the scenario plot generation unit 17 transmits the output scenario plot to the client.

1 ... Scenario plot generation device 11 ... Input device 12 ... Recording unit 13 ... Display unit 14 ... Control unit 15 ... Tag input reception unit 16 ... Block acquisition unit 17 ... Scenario plot generation unit

Claims (8)

A scenario plot generation device that generates a scenario plot of a story consisting of multiple phases,
A block corresponding to each phase of the scenario plot from a tag input reception unit that receives inputs of a plurality of tags that are elements of the scenario plot, and a recording unit that records a plurality of blocks that are samples of each phase of the scenario plot. A block acquisition unit that acquires based on at least a part of the plurality of tags received by the tag input reception unit,
A scenario plot generation unit that generates the scenario plot based on a plurality of blocks acquired by the block acquisition unit;
Equipped with
The block recorded in the recording unit is tagged,
The block acquisition unit acquires a block to which a tag matching at least a part of the plurality of tags received by the tag input reception unit is added,
The scenario plot generation unit, in the block acquired by the block acquisition unit, a noun of a sentence including a character indicating the name of the main character of the story, a tag related to the phase number attached to the block including the sentence, Replace with a noun contained in a block that has tags that match the tags related to the age and the tags related to the genre,
Scenario plot generator. The scenario plot generation device according to claim 1 , wherein
The block acquisition unit preferentially selects and acquires a block in which the tag assigned with the tag having a high priority matches among the plurality of tags received by the tag input reception unit.
Scenario plot generator. The scenario plot generation device according to claim 2 , wherein
The plurality of tags received by the tag input receiving unit include at least a tag related to a phase number, a tag related to an era, and a tag related to a genre,
The block acquisition unit preferentially selects and acquires a block in which tags assigned to the tag related to the phase number, the tag related to the era, and the tag related to the genre match.
Scenario plot generator. The scenario plot generation device according to claim 1 , wherein
The scenario plot consists of 13 phases,
The plurality of tags received by the tag input receiving unit include at least a tag related to a phase number,
The block acquisition unit selects and acquires a block to which a tag having a matching phase number is attached, at least for blocks corresponding to the sixth phase, the seventh phase, and the eighth phase,
Scenario plot generator. The scenario plot generation device according to claim 1, wherein
The plurality of tags accepted by the tag input accepting unit are tags relating to the age of the hero of the story, tags relating to the occupation of the hero, tags relating to events that trigger the hero to take action, tags relating to the stage of the story, Including at least one of a tag relating to the age of the story, a tag relating to the genre of the story, a tag relating to the ending of the story, and a tag relating to the life or death of the hero,
Scenario plot generator. The scenario plot generation device according to claim 1, wherein
The block acquisition unit includes a tag related to a phase number, a tag related to the age of the hero of the story, a tag related to the occupation of the hero, a tag related to an event that causes the hero to take action, a tag related to the stage of the story, the story , A tag related to the era of the story, a tag related to the genre of the story, a tag related to the ending of the story and a tag related to at least one of the life and death of the main character, and a block is obtained from the recording unit in which a plurality of blocks are recorded.
Scenario plot generator. A scenario plot generation method for generating a scenario plot of a story executed by a computer, the story consisting of multiple phases,
Receiving a plurality of tags that are elements of the scenario plot,
A block acquisition step of acquiring a block corresponding to each phase of the scenario plot from a recording unit in which a plurality of blocks that are samples of each phase of the scenario plot are recorded based on at least a part of the plurality of received tags When,
A scenario plot generation step of generating the scenario plot based on the acquired plurality of blocks;
Only including,
The block recorded in the recording unit is tagged,
In the block acquisition step, acquiring a block to which a tag matching at least a part of the plurality of tags received by the tag input reception unit is added,
In the scenario plot generation step, in the block acquired in the block acquisition step, a noun of a sentence including a character indicating the name of the main character of the story is given to the block including the sentence, a tag regarding a phase number, Replace with a noun contained in a block that has tags that match the tags related to the age and the tags related to the genre,
Scenario plot generation method. A program for causing a computer to execute the scenario plot generation method according to claim 7 .

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