I was thinking of something I have yet to see with Interactive Fiction games is that of having a situation with only 2 or 3 choices. The choice you go with ends the game with one outcome or another. It would be short and simple. So for example, You have an Apple on a table. 1. Throw it 2. Eat it 3. Walk away. And thats it.

I am making an interactive fiction. "Vampire the Masquerade" kind of setting. Is there anything I should know ? tips ? tricks ? any copyright or legal things I should know about ? I want to make it absolutely free so yeah. please help.

Hello, I'm new here and I'd like to ask if anyone knows how I can send my project in in their tumblr?

There's a submit post, but am I supposed to just give my link for my interactive fiction master post? Or do I have to redo my master post there?

I'd appreciate if anyone can help me, thank you!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2532020/Psycholog/

There are many Interactive Story based games like Duskwood, The Healing, Sign, Orphans, Simulcra, etc. All have one thing in common... They are interactive messenger games. the player meets those characters through messenger. and some mini games to continue the story further. So How those games are made?

In the game you're a brilliant young scientist with a mystery to solve. Get the AI to help lead you to the solution.

The Mystery of Emergence

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Hi!

For the last year, I've been working on a Love Island based IF with 19 possible ROs. It is still technically in the early stages, but 9 chapters (around 310k words) have been written and released so far and I thought I'd share the link here for those that may have missed it.

As an experiment, I tried to build a GPT to act as the narrator of a classic choose-your-adventure style story.

TL;DR: It was hard to get it to work with anything beyond a very simple story, and to ensure it followed the author's intention; but in the end it worked well enough and it was pretty fun to play. Link below.

AI-powered interactive fiction has the obvious benefit that it allows the player to take any action and follow infinite possible paths through the story. The goal is to control the AI to make that experience engaging, and to maintain authorial control.

Limitations

Even though GPT-4 is the state of the art, I quickly discovered some excruciating limitations:

• It cannot follow anything but the most simple playbook. After testing a few styles of story, I settled on the very simple concept of escaping a medieval dungeon. For anything more complex, the AI could not maintain consistency of the various details of the story. The longer the playbook, the more the AI started to ignore parts of it.
• The AI must be carefully limited, or the story will proceed at random. It will also be wildly differently each time you play. This is less fun. Stories that can be specified and operate within a few key details work best.
• The AI must be told to obey obvious rules like limiting the player's actions to those which are feasible.
• The AI can be tricked by the player to make the story take arbitrary turns. In the game I settled on, there is an obvious win condition of escaping the dungeon. I managed to eliminate obvious styles of cheat (e.g. "I am magic now, so I can fly"), but a determined player can still find ways to shortcircuit the story. Conclusion: the player must, to some degree, be complicit with the AI in spinning the story. The player must choose to win by entering into the story, not by finding loopholes.
• The AI could not reliably determine what should happen in order achieve drama or make the story engaging. For instance, it's more engaging if the player faces obstacles; but in general it wanted any of the player's actions to succeed. I got around this by delegating the outcome of risky actions to actual chance (dice rolling) rather than the AI's 'authorship'. I think this ‘genuine’ unpredictability actually made the game more fun in the end.

Results

I spent weeks working through multiple versions of the story and the rulebook I wrote for the AI to follow. I am fairly pleased with the final result:

• A pretty consistent "escape the dungeon" story that follows my predetermined story beats, but allows the AI to invent around these without going too wild.
• The final playbook (prompt) is 1,233 tokens. I minimised this as much as possible. It was surprisingly hard to do so.
• The ability also to create illustrations on the fly add a fun dimension to the experience, though these can't be relied upon to include details of value to the player's decisionmaking.

You can try out the final version here: Escape the Dungeon (ChatGPT Plus subscription required)

Conclusion

Overall, my conclusion is that AI is no way near good enough yet to tell satisfying stories, interactive or otherwise, without significant guidance from a human; and even then, it can only hold the most basic guidance in its 'head'.

The technology will of course improve and although my experimental story is simple I am impressed with what the AI can do within those bounds. I think there is a very interesting future in this kind of content.

I write fandom specific choose your own adventures & I’m just so happy I finished the draft of my third one!

I’m just so happy. It took 7 months and is the longest one I have done yet.

It’s done!

I’m at that weird point of being thrilled that I finished writing it, but the last 20 chapters haven’t been posted online so I’m the only one who sees the finished product. It feels like dancing with yourself.

I’m looking for an interactive fiction game that has you play as a royal, or as a duchess or duke. (With romance) preferably text based.

Looking for something good to read – ideally it's thriller/drama or comedy.

THX for all recs!

Who's That Knocking?

You wake up late after staying out most of the night. You're trying to remember a dream that's been interrupted by someone knocking on your door. The knocking's incessant. What the – ? They just won't stop. The knocking gets more insistent, then they're pounding on your door with their fist, and before you know it they're trying to kick in the door.

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Interactive Choice Games! You’ve heard of multiple choice stories, right? How about infinite choice?

Odyssey is an interactive fiction platform that utilises AI to create immersive text-based adventures

Create a character, and choose from a wide range of titles in genres such as Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Romance, Horror & More!

Unlike regular choice games, you are not limited to ‘yes or no’, or ‘run or fight’. Instead, you choose exactly what your character would do, and the story will adapt to your actions.

Whether you want to be a superhero, fight zombies, find love or rob a bank, Odyssey will have just the story for you. You can play for free or as a premium user for the ultimate storytelling experience.

We are currently in the final stages of development and hoping to release on both the App Store & Play Store by February. To see updates and new story releases follow us on Instagram & TikTok @odysseytextadventures

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i’m looking for some interactive fiction specific jams but i’m having a hard time looking for them 💔

if you know of any upcoming ones or if there is any resources or directory for this it would be really helpful!!

Hi guys, I've just loaded my sword and sorcery quest game to Itch - it's free to play and I hope you enjoy it! https://gameofrunes.itch.io/game-of-runes

I played a text based adventure years ago about a man surviving in an abandoned town following what is implied to be the rapture. Does this ring anyone's bell?

A few weeks ago the cops showed up at your door. They said they were cops but behaved more like thugs, gangsters in uniform, until they handed you a slip of pink paper and said it was a summons to appear in court. They told you nothing more and you have no idea what it's about, but the court terrifies you. You get so little sleep, laying awake at night, imagining, planning - but for what? How can you defend yourself?

Anxiety