Toward Automated Critique for Student-Created Interactive Narrative Projects

Automated feedback has the potential to provide significant assistance to student game creators. Here, we present a system for generating automated, critiquelike feedback for students creating games in the StudyCrafter platform. We implemented a system that builds a personalized feedback report for students based on a templated format. This critique uses automated analysis of structural and interactive aspects of the game narrative and recommends alternate games for students to examine as inspiration. To test our system, we conducted a pilot study with 10 student groups developing narrativebased games. A key understanding from the study is that determining the appropriate depth of assessment and critique without overwhelming the student is important.