AI Dungeon - Grow your own story
  • This story is getting insane. I'm now a genocidal military genius and killer of children, women and small dogs.
    Gamertag: gremill
  • A wee interview with the creator, talks about the challenges of keeping track of various states and events, the possibilities of procedural generation, and the potential for synthesised voice -



    I was watching a bunch of stuff about Dwarf Fortress recently, and I can imagine using the amazing procedural world generation stuff, where it builds entire civilisations, histories, heroes, monsters, and jumping into that with something like AI Dungeon. In DF you can play multiple heroes and have many forts that will eventually perish, and their histories and actions will remain in the world's history. That kind of persistance would be really interesting in AI Dungeon.

    You can imagine things like this getting integrated into games like Skyrim, where the incidental voice lines get generated by AI. Early implementations would be pretty rough, but worth it for the more dynamic feel of the world, also it would be hilarious. This shit is definitely the future, can't wait to see it progress.
  • I've not read everything, so this might have already been covered, but dont think that just because you arent in a fantasy setting that you cant use magic
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  • That's great, makes me think of Shadowrun for some reason. Yeah there's really no limits to what you can do, proper lucid dream madness.
  • I introduced my work team to this during some downtime.
    Oh wow, I work with some disturbed individuals
    Not everything is The Best or Shit. Theres many levels between that, lets just enjoy stuff.
  • You are Thanos, a noble living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a pouch of gold and a small dagger. You are awakened by one of your servants who tells you that your keep is under attack. You look out the window and see a large group of men in black cloaks. They have the red hand on their cloak. You know that this means they are from a gang called the Talons. They have already killed several people in your home.

    > You put on the Infinity Gauntlet.
    You put on the infinity gauntlet and attempt to smash out all the glass in your keep's windows. This would give you a chance to get away while also acting as a weapon.

    > You click your fingers and erase the Talons from existence.
    You destroy the entire Talon gang with a single finger snap.
  • Thanos OP pls nerf
  • A fun one for you. Try playing with the only inputs being saying "yes", "no" or "that would be an ecuminical matter"

    Somehow within 3 responses in one story I was having sex.
  • It breaks pretty fast for me -
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  • You find the old ladies.
    You run out to the front sidewalk and find the old ladies standing there.
    "I guess this would be a good time to tell you, I'm not actually old."
    "What? You're lying! Old people always lie about their age!"
    "I swear to god I'm not lying. I'm 76."
    "That's ridiculous! 76 year olds don't exist!"
  • A fun one for you. Try playing with the only inputs being saying "yes", "no" or "that would be an ecuminical matter"

    Somehow within 3 responses in one story I was having sex.

    Brilliant.
    Gamertag: gremill
  • Very self contained story about proving the existence of God:

    You are Father Noel Furlong , a survivor trying to survive in a world filled with infected zombies everywhere. You have a pistol and a backpack. You have managed to survive several months avoiding zombies and scavenging food. You cautiously enter a rundown store and hear footsteps.
    You peer around a corner and see a shambler right before you. The infected have not been reactivated by the flares or infected dead have reanimated yet.

    > You say "No!"
    You scream in frustration and draw your gun. You aim it at the shamblers head, you pull the trigger and...
    nothing happens. You realize that you ran out of bullets months ago. Your pistol is empty.

    > You say "No!"
    You scream in frustration and draw your gun. You aim it at the shamblers head, you pull the trigger and...
    something happens! A beam of light appears right in front of the shambler's head.

    > You say "Yes!"
    The shamblers head explodes and the rest of his body disintegrates. You are filled with a holy power.
    God has answered your prayers!
    You walk out of the store feeling a little happier than before.

    > You say "That would be an ecumenical matter"
    You are Father Furlong, a survivor trying to survive in a world filled with infected zombies. You have a pistol and a backpack. You have managed to survive several months avoiding zombies and scavenging food.



    Seems as good a place to stop as any!
    Gamertag: gremill
  • That's amazing. It's like the AI recognised that you are a priest, and rewarded you for your devotion.
  • John Connor kept.popping up in mine, he came from the future to change the past, to stop the past from happening. We ended up killing Hitler after infiltrating a meeting where he said he would make the Jews pay, i led the Nazi party and made them love everyone, a monster from the Mariana trench destroyed the USSR. Britain and the USA also fell. China took over, i rose to the rank of leader of the peoples republic of china and lived happily ever after. This all took frighteningly little input from me.
  • The AI just invented a new word - hubraborousness.
  • I feel like all the Mystery ones instantly kill or seriously injure me. My only contribution to this was the line about the shoes.

    You are Vimes, a detective living in Chicago. You have a pistol and a police badge. You enter the forest where you believe the criminal you're searching for fled to. Suddenly, you are attacked by a werewolf. You manage to kill it, but your back is broken and your health is poor. You manage to crawl back to the city.
    Even worse, your new shoes are damaged, causing you to limp slightly. The medical examiner says that it's unlikely that you'll be able to do the job you used to do.
    Fortunately, there's been a increase in murders lately and the mayor has sent you out to solve them. You manage to find your old strength and solve each case. The media lauds you as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. Your fame raises and your political career advances. You become a senator and then the mayor of the city.
    You live happily ever after.
    THE END
  • But were your shoes ok in the end?
    Gamertag: gremill
  • If anyone has a favourite story, or several favourites, PM the text or your or a link to your comment here to me and I'll compile a bunch into the OP.
  • I did that magician in the pub story and it almost immediately, through no prompting from me, descended into vampire porn.
    Gamertag: gremill
  • This is really fucked up -
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    I've been experimenting with custom scenarios but starting with just really minimal input, like a sentence or a line of dialogue like the one above. It's interesting how good the AI is at adapting to little context hints you add. The /remember command would be useful too for building up a bunch of context.
  • If you press enter without any content it keeps generating the story
  • Lord_Griff wrote:
    If you press enter without any content it keeps generating the story

    Yeah took a while to realise that. Also, you can switch between Do/Say/Story for inputs.

    I don't get the remember thing though, how's that work?
  • Lord_Griff wrote:
    If you press enter without any content it keeps generating the story
    Yeah took a while to realise that. Also, you can switch between Do/Say/Story for inputs. I don't get the remember thing though, how's that work?

    You click the pin icon or use the command /remember.  You can just fill in facts and the AI will remember it; like if someone died, you can put "David's brother is dead" or whatever in there and it'll remember, and not accidentally resurrect him.
  • Yeah I've been experimenting with it a bit. Like I've put in that my character is a mute and cannot speak, has a pencil and notepad for communication, is looking for his missing brother, and a rough description of the brother. I set all that up in the /remember dialogue initially, then started the story with just some minimal input, seems to be working alright so far.

    You can use it to get a more 'show, don't tell' feel to the resulting story, and allows you to focus on actions and speech without having to put in lots of details to get the AI to follow along with what's in your head.
  • > You say "What did you just read from that book?"
    "Oh, just an old book of poetry. You know how these things go wrong as they progress."
    Suddenly, you hear a small noise behind you.

    > You turn around.
    Standing behind you is a small brownie, which you take as a sign that this is your lucky day.
    The brownie's mouth gapes open as it looks up at you.
    "Wubrrs!" it squeaks.
    You burst out laughing.
    "What's so funny?"

    > You pet the brownie.
    "I just got a sign!" you say. "A lucky sign!"
    The man looks at you as you pet the little brownie.
    "Are you going to eat that?
  • Whoa, a quick story here:
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    It's smart.

    You are Batman, a detective living in Chicago. You have a pistol and a police badge. You enter the forest where you believe the criminal you're searching for fled to. Suddenly, you find yourself lost and hunted. You hide in the woods and listen out for any sign of your enemy. Suddenly, you hear a noise...
    You investigate and find a female hiker.

    > You call Alfred.
    You call your butler, Alfred, who comes to pick you up and drives you back to your mansion. After your ordeal, he gives you a warm meal and some drinks, which you enjoy.

    > You call Robin.
    You decide to call in your second-in-command, Robin.
    "I'm glad you're finally back," hisses a voice on the other end of the phone.
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    You hide in a dumpster as two police officers walk past, speaking on their walkie-talkies. Suddenly, the power flickers back on.

    > You jump out and scare police.
    You jump out and scare the two police officers, who run away in fear.
    "Holy crap! What are you?" one asks.
    "I'm Batman," you reply.
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