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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #3263 | 2.982 | 3.308 |
| Overall | #4568 | 2.311 | 2.564 |
| Enjoyment | #4875 | 2.011 | 2.231 |
| Presentation | #5416 | 1.941 | 2.154 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
In this game YOU are the dungeon master of a classic text-adventure game. Walk the CPU player through an adventure of your own creation.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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Really cool idea. Seems like it could fit a really cool puzzle idea where you can try and get the CPU to the area it wants to go through prompts it gives back. (Like if you described treasure ahead maybe the CPU doesn't really care and mentions wanting combat, so you can make the chest into a mimic)
Great work!
That is such a clever addition! We struggled to 'gamify' the game with goals and ended up with the goal of "Make the CPU happy." Giving the CPU the likes and dislikes that any human player has would be such a big step forward towards making the game fun! It's a terrific idea. Thank you so much for the play and for your feedback.
I know we weren't suppose allowed to use LLMs in this jam, so you didn't. But I think this could be a pretty funny use case for an LLM. I would be genuinely curious to see how that would play. You could even use sentiment analysis from an LLM to try to piss the player off and stuff.
I really liked the concept, but maybe giving the players preset prompts to choose from would have nice to get started. Or just some helper text.
Overall very original and clever!
Thank you so much for your feedback! We plan on making a version that uses proper AI in the future.
I am very curious to hear, what sort of preset prompts would you suggest we provide to players?
I have just spend about 30 minutes playing this thing and I love it, even though the CPU isn't very smart, I actually found that strangely refreshing after all the fuss around ChatGPT
and other "smarter" AIs. I found it quite funny when I told it that it has won, but it just wanted to keep turning right and playing :D Seriously this was really fun!
I am so very happy to hear that you had fun with this! Obviously we had a lot more features planned and wanted the CPU to be a lot smarter, but isn't it interesting how it can still be enjoyable? We both found our inner writers coming out when interacting with it!
I love the idea of this game, but I kept telling the CPU player about interesting objects around them and they kept just walking in random directions!
Oh my goodness... Thank you for your play and the comment! Sorry the CPU wasn't fully fledged :)