BOOKWORLD: From Novels to Interactive Agent Societies for Story Creation

ACL ARR 2025 February Submission3285 Authors

Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled social simulation through multi-agent systems. Prior efforts focus on agent societies created from scratch, assigning agents with newly defined personas. However, simulating established fictional worlds and characters remain largely underexplored, despite its significant practical value. In this paper, we introduce BookWorld, a comprehensive system for constructing and simulating book-based multi-agent societies. BookWorld's design covers comprehensive real-world intricacies, including diverse and dynamic characters, fictional worldviews, geographical constraints and changes, e.t.c. BookWorld enables diverse applications including story generation, interactive games and social simulation, offering novel ways to extend and explore beloved fictional works. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that BookWorld generates creative, high-quality stories while maintaining fidelity to the source books, surpassing previous methods with a win rate of 75.36%. The code of this paper can be found at: <https://anonymous.4open.science/r/BookWorld-1DC5/>

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Dialogue and Interactive Systems

Research Area Keywords: interactive storytelling, applications

Contribution Types: Publicly available software and/or pre-trained models

Languages Studied: English, Chinese

Submission Number: 3285