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Physical cards provide structured prompts and social interaction, while the system generates contextual visuals to support group decisions. Compared with online collaborative writing alone, FIERO strengthens immersion and visualization, improves story coherence and logic, and boosts idea fluency, novelty, and plot quality (N=60).","arXiv :2607 . 11837v1 [ cs .HC] 13 Jul 2026  \nFIERO: Empowering Creative Writing Through Collaborative Game Play  \nCHU ZHANG∗ , City University of Hong Kong, China XIAOKE ZENG∗ , City University of Hong Kong, China JIN ZHANG, University of York, United Kingdom RUOYU WEN, University of Canterbury, New Zealand VINCE SIU, Press Start Academy, China  \nRICHARD WILLIAM ALLEN, City University of Hong Kong, China RAY LC†, City University of Hong Kong Studio for Narrative Spaces, China  \nFig. 1. FIERO is a collaborative story creation game that combines card-based mechanics with digital system. Compared to traditional shared document-based collaboration (Control Group), FIERO helps participants develop a stronger sense of immersion and visualization in their story creation process, while enhancing the coherence, logic, and innovation of the story.  \n∗ Equal contribution.  \n†Correspondences can be [addressed to ray.lc@cityu.edu.hk](addressed to ray.lc@cityu.edu.hk).  \nAuthors’ Contact Information: Chu Zhang, [zhangchu0908@outlook.com](zhangchu0908@outlook.com), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;  \nXiaoKe Zeng, [zxioke@outlook.com](zxioke@outlook.com), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Jin Zhang, [stberries0@gmail.com](stberries0@gmail.com),  \nUniversity of York, York, United Kingdom; Ruoyu Wen, [rwe77@uclive.ac.nz](rwe77@uclive.ac.nz), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; Vince Siu, [vince@pressstartacademy.com](vince@pressstartacademy.com), Press Start Academy, Hong Kong, China; Richard William Allen, [rwallen@cityu.edu.hk](rwallen@cityu.edu.hk), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; RAY LC, [ray.lc@cityu.edu.hk](ray.lc@cityu.edu.hk), City University of Hong Kong Studio for Narrative Spaces, Hong Kong, SAR, China.  \nPermission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored.  \nProc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 1, No. 1, Article . Publication date: July 2024 .  \n2 Chu Zhang et al.  \nCreativity often flourishes in collaboration, such as when designers brainstorm a new app together, or storytellers collectively build a world with elements of each person’s narrative. However, collaborative storytelling can have challenges for its participants, such as when they disagree about the plot proposed, or when different ideas become fragmented when voiced individually. While current tools for creative collaboration focus on synchronous online text sharing, they often neglect the social dynamics of in-person collaboration critical to creative synergy. To address this, we created FIERO, a multiplayer web-based card game. Physical cards provide tangible scaffolding and social interaction, while the digital interface generates contextual visuals, facilitate group decisions, ensure narrative coherence, and synthesize different idea contributions using generative AI. Compared against online collaborative writing alone, the game significantly enhanced intuitive stimulation, idea fluency, and novelty generation, and also improved the content of the stories produced, leading to greater plot coherence (N=60) . The cards provided creative structure and social engagement, while the interface provided contextualized augmentation without affecting player agency. This work shows how collaborative play can be utilized to foster creative support.  \nCCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing.  \nAdditional Key Words and Phrases: Collaborative Storytelling, Creative Writing, Card Games, Generative AI, Tangible Interfaces, Game-Based Creativity  \nACM Reference Format:  \nChu Zhang, XiaoKe Zeng, Jin Zhang, Ruoyu Wen, Vince Siu, Richard William Allen, and RAY LC. 2024. FIER","cbCaifUFtRRK6EbU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifUFtRRK6EbU","pdf",16237367,51,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Motivation and challenges in creative writing\n## Limits of existing collaborative tools\n## FIERO’s game-based approach","[{\"question\":\"What is FIERO and what problem does it address?\",\"answer\":\"FIERO is a multiplayer web-based card game for collaborative creative writing. 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