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GMTK Game Jam 2023

Hosted by Game Maker's Toolkit · #GMTKJam2023
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A jam submission

Upstart DungeonView game page

YOU are the game master! Shepherd the CPU player through an adventure of your own design.
Submitted by Cmdr3nder, dreamsprite — 1 hour, 39 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#32632.9823.308
Overall#45682.3112.564
Enjoyment#48752.0112.231
Presentation#54161.9412.154

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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Comments

JarodMKSubmitted1 year ago

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!

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Alchemiracle
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dreamspriteDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

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.

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Ramen SeaSubmitted1 year ago

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!

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Market Mayhem
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dreamspriteDeveloper1 year ago

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?

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ZakroutilSubmitted1 year ago

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!

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Terra Form
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dreamspriteDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

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!

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Diane SparksSubmitted1 year ago

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!

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Jump On Me
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dreamspriteDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Oh my goodness... Thank you for your play and the comment! Sorry the CPU wasn't fully fledged :)

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