True enough. We are using an LLM backend and a Stable Diffusion backend that we have running during the jam rating period. We also have a set of predefined values from a run I did that will continue to work after the backends are shut down. It is a pretty new space, and it can be difficult to know how to best handle situations with servers. Some of the servers are high GPU costs and get expensive to run for a full week.
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Sure. Our idea was letting players host it themselves, so as to have the game run only on the player's PC and because the initial version used GPT-4. We believed that participants of this jam would have access to computing resources because of having to use AI tools to make their games and added Colab as a failsafe.
We did consider pre-generating everything at the start, but then the server would still have to handle environment interactions, which are an important part of the game. Also, having a single experience for everyone would defeat the whole point.