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  • Fallesen Connolly posted an update 3 years, 7 months ago

    Currently, AI Dungeon is among the most well-known and beloved interactive fiction games. AI Dungeon is a free to play game by Latitude, Inc., revealed to the market in December 2019 for both PC and mobile platforms. By using artificial intelligence, AI Dungeon are able to make the narratives. AI Dungeon particularly uses the text prediction program of OpenAI that is known for expertly calculating what the next words will be in a sentence.

    In March 2019, software developer Nick Walton entered AI Dungeon into a hackathon. A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, as well as other people included in software designing come together with the end goal of creating fully functioning software. In the hackathon that Nick Walton was a part of, AI Dungeon turned out to be a sensation. Furthermore, there were some online users of AI Dungeon.

    ai dungeon is Nick Walton’s “passion project” that eventually resulted to his company Latitude, Inc. AI Dungeon’s achievements were the direct result of the community working together to support the project, much like most passion project and indie games before it. Consequently, AI Dungeon upheld its free to play framework since it is consistently preserved by the community through Patreon crowd funding, donations, voluntary code work, and other open source projects.

    In the first launch of the game, there were no less than 2,000 people that played AI Dungeon. However, when AI Dungeon was yet again released in December 2019, victory hit hard. In only two weeks, AI Dungeon servers were peaking at 700 players at a time. Furthermore, 100,000 were estimated to have played the game at some point and they generated at least 500,000 stories. Six weeks later, AI Dungeon had surpassed the millionth mark with 6,000,000 distinct stories told. The $15,000 monthly donations on Patreon towards game maintenance were also proof of the community’s continuous support for AI Dungeon.

    In the world of interactive fiction games, there is one thing which makes AI Dungeon distinctive. Due to the technological handicaps beforehand, the production of stories on interactive fiction games are already set. These preset versions of interactive fiction games have unchanging content and would probably be dull over time. AI Dungeon is programmed under OpenAI’s GPT-2 text prediction model that has 1.5 billion parameters from 8 million web sites. The virtually infinite assortment of datasets permit a natural generation of texts and stories on multiple kinds of platforms. Because of the usage of GPT-2, AI Dungeon is a fully-functioning open text world with the user’s imagination as its only limit.

    For virtually any imaginative player, AI Dungeon could be the perfect game. Due to its endless content generation as a result of the utilization of GPT-2, the stories inimitable. AI Dungeon also has over seven backgrounds that gamers can opt from, namely: fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, zombies, cyberpunk, custom, and other archived models. Because of these features, AI Dungeon has turned into a completely immersive game though it lacks graphic representations and sound mechanisms.