"Tamara" as a concurrent trace
My last post described the idea of concurrent storytelling to encapsulate the idea of narrative structures where simultaneous action can lead to multiple experiences of a story, either through nondeterminism or through differing sequential traversals of the story graph. Since then, I have obtained a copy of the Tamara script (which is written like a really bizarre choose-your-own-adventure book) and begun transcribing its scene structure as a deterministic Celf program such that the output trace models the scene dependency graph. To do this, I model each of the 10 characters as a predicate over a location and a scene identifier, e.g. tamara : scene -> location -> type. The scene IDs roughly correspond to the letter-and-numbered scenes in the script, except that they are slightly finer grained to accommodate the different perspectives induced by character entrances and exits, although those entrances/exits are contained within a single script-scene. In the si...