I wanted to make a Proof of Concept to show what truly original gameplay mechanics could be brought in by genAI. There are 2 in this game:

- argument based language interactions: it's not a choice-based Visual Novel. To progress you need to convince NPCs.

- natural language input: the LLM understands what happens and describe the result. This is, I believe the original vision of Interactive Fiction

- image-decyphering abilities: to argue, you need to understand what we're talking about, and most of the clues are hidden in the generated images

Most of the AI applications tend to be "human-made but worse" or "procedural generation but worse", which lead to the "AI slop" perception. In this game, some people that would generally be adverse to AI (because it displaces artists) found it fun, as it embraces its issues and the surrounding debate.

The backend is AWS lambda + Replicate + Groq so it should withstand an hn hug of death.

I'll put the whole project on Github soon btw.

It's really short (less than 20 minutes) so I hope you'll try it (and have fun!).