AI Dungeon 2

Games

text adventure

SHOW HN2019

584points
220comments
#22of 2,195 in 2019
Top 2%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

40 positive, 72 neutral or asking, 13 mixed, 28 critical, out of 153 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.

Execution: 6 for, 14 againstPerformance: 10 for, 9 againstIdea: 14 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Entertaining, surreal, dream-like stories.

    From 4 comments
    • I keep getting surreal hells. First: I see my pregnant sister nearby, I go back to work and then go to sleep. I wake up, and she is standing over my bed. I ask her about the…
      dbandstra on HN
    • This is insane! ``` The coin is a silver denarius. It would be worth about five hundred gold pieces. This is enough money for you to live comfortably for the rest of your life.…
      ladberg on HN
    • You and Narya enter the restaurant and sit down. The place seems very fancy. There are many tables and chairs set up around the room. A waiter comes over and sits next to you. He…
      mushufasa on HN
    • This is a project I've been working on for the past several months and it has blown me away with what it can do. Definitely recommend trying it out. I think the coolest thing…
      nickwalton00 on HN
  • Impressive proof of concept for future games.

    From 1 comment
    • I'm glad you loved it! Yeah there's definitely points where the coherence breaks down, but it's an awesome proof of concept of what's possible in future games and pretty fun in…
      nickwalton00 on HN

Objections

  • Story world state is not kept consistent between passages.

    From 2 comments
    • This is very entartaining but it's not very good as an interactive story generator. The problem is that it can't keep the state of the story world consistent between generated…
      YeGoblynQueenne on HN
    • The state of the world doesn't seem to be consistent between actions. Got stuff like "someone calls out to you" -> say hello -> "person notices you for the first time and says 'I…
      p1necone on HN
  • Out-of-memory errors and freezes on Colab.

    From 2 comments
    • I'm getting OOM errors on colab after the first 10-ish actions :( EDIT: Any chance you can support TPU on Colab?
      Akababa on HN
    • Sometimes the colab notebook freezes, I'm not totally sure why it happens, but if you stop the cell you can get an ID to reload your game. Then just restart the cell and enter…
      nickwalton00 on HN
  • Requires logging into Google, raising privacy concerns.

    From 1 comment
    • With the warning that it will be able to read any of my Google data, I don't think it's worth trying. Why can't it be completely sandboxed? Why do I even need to be logged in…
      blunte on HN

Requests

  • Run on own hardware or support TPU on Colab.

    From 2 comments
    • What would be the system requirements if I wanted to run this on my own hardware instead of in the Google UI? It runs out of memory while "initializing AI Dungeon", but if I…
      jstanley on HN
    • I'm getting OOM errors on colab after the first 10-ish actions :( EDIT: Any chance you can support TPU on Colab?
      Akababa on HN
  • Combine with persistent game structure.

    From 1 comment
    • I wonder what could be done to combine this with the structure of a typical game, to allow for more persistence over time.
      foota on HN

Questions

  • How to run the Colab notebook cells.

    From 1 comment
    • (EDIT: You need to be logged into Google for this to work, but it is absolutely incredible and well worth logging in to Google for. I love it.) When I try to play it, I get a…
      jstanley on HN
  • What system requirements are needed to self-host.

    From 1 comment
    • What would be the system requirements if I wanted to run this on my own hardware instead of in the Google UI? It runs out of memory while "initializing AI Dungeon", but if I…
      jstanley on HN

Alternatives named

  • Zork and other classic text adventures.

    From 1 comment
    • Yeah it has a very dream like quality. It's definitely more like minecraft in the lack of any defined goal.
      nickwalton00 on HN

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