I think I've finally found an alternative to conflict in storytelling.
Conflict is not a mandatory thing.
You can get a similar effect to conflict, with novelty.
What do I mean, instead of conflict, you can use a piece of lore or informational retrieval that takes the character to move towards a newer point in the seek of a new informational novelty event.
It is the discovery of a newer point to move and the movement towards that point, that produces a similar avoidance of boredom and produced a flow in the story.
It is not the lack of conflict that bores a story, but simply it's stagnation without novelty that causes boredom.
Conflict is not a mandatory thing.
You can get a similar effect to conflict, with novelty.
What do I mean, instead of conflict, you can use a piece of lore or informational retrieval that takes the character to move towards a newer point in the seek of a new informational novelty event.
It is the discovery of a newer point to move and the movement towards that point, that produces a similar avoidance of boredom and produced a flow in the story.
It is not the lack of conflict that bores a story, but simply it's stagnation without novelty that causes boredom.
