MicroTales is a collection of modular elements that can be combined to create a variety of story planning problems of varying size and difficulty. This documentation explains the design goals of MicroTales and precisely defines all elements.
MicroTales documentation is available in PDF and HTML formats.
This documentation is written in LaTeX. It needs to be compiled 3 times to construct the index, cross-references, and bibliography.
pdflatex microtales.tex
bibtex microtales
pdflatex microtales.tex
pdflatex microtales.tex
This documentation can also be converted into HTML using Pandoc:
pandoc microtales.tex -f latex -t html -s -o microtales.html \
--toc -V toc-title=Contents \
--bibliography bibliography.bib --citeproc -M reference-section-title=Bibliography \
--lua-filter codeenv.lua
The first version of this documentation was written by Stephen G. Ware and Molly
Siler of the Narrative Intelligence Lab at the
University of Kentucky in September, 2025. The University
of Kentucky holds the copyright to this document. It is released under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
license (CC BY-SA 4.0). In short, this means anyone is free to distribute it and
to adapt it, even for commercial purposes, as long as they give appropriate
credit to the original authors. Full details can be found in license.txt. The
University of Kentucky reserves all rights not explicitly granted by the
license.