When I first started my research, I found there was no agreed upon definition of a quest. Thus, part of my research focus has been to create a general, technical definition of a quest for use in technical applications of quest based research.

What is a quest?
Published at the Interactive Narrative Technologies workshop at AIIDE 2020

Towards Disambiguating Quests as a Technical Term
Published at the Foundations on Digital Games (FDG) 2021
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The Definition-Context-Purpose Paradigm and Other Insights from Industry on the Definition of a Quest
Published at the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2021
Nominated for best student paper
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