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In this class, Ben was introduced to the idea of creating art using generative models and has since been exploring the possibilities of combining this technology and creative writing. Ben Swanson, R&D Scientist at La Forge Montreal, is the creator of Ghostwriter, and remembers the early seeds of it ahead of his presentation of the tech at GDC this year.īen's interest in creative applications of Natural Language Processing began while studying his PhD in Computer Science at Brown University, where he took a class with two creative writers from Brown and Rhode Island School of Design on Digital Literature. Ghostwriter effectively generates first drafts of barks - phrases or sounds made by NPCs during a triggered event - which gives scriptwriters more time to polish the narrative elsewhere.

Ghostwriter isn't replacing the video game writer, but instead, alleviating one of the video game writer's most laborious tasks: writing barks. How do you keep each interaction with them - especially if there are hundreds of them - distinct? This is where Ghostwriter, an in-house AI tool created by Ubisoft's R&D department, La Forge, comes in.

As games grow bigger in scope, writers are facing the ratcheting challenge of keeping NPCs individually interesting and realistic.