Sarmilan Tharmabalan

Guiding, Not Railroading: Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Agent System for Narrative Redirection in Role-playing Games

Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to revolutionize interactive storytelling, yet they introduce a fundamental HCI challenge: balancing player agency with the coherence of a pre-authored narrative. Existing LLM-driven Game Masters (GMs) often undermine the player experience by being overly compliant, leading to d…