{"id":2239,"edition":12,"categories":64,"features":0,"size":7893,"name":"Unnamed","authors":[{"name":"Ryuno-Ki","url":"https://jaenis.ch/","login":"Ryuno-Ki","gh":3097194}],"description":"

I intended to write an AI-driven game until life priorities took over.

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Therefore there is no gameplay, but a focus on research with this entry.

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Tell me about it! Would like to eventually see what could have been as I’m learning more about AI-based games! Even a possible post-mortem on your GitHub. Because I’ll speak for myself and say, I’m still learning.

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Hey Ronica,

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my Postmortem will show up in https://jaenis.ch/en/blog/2024/\n(I’m currently writing it) and be PRed to https://github.com/js13kGames/resources#post-mortems-10

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Given https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ I want to avoid GitHub for the reasons stated there. That being said, it’s still a rule to this competition, so I wasn’t able to delete my profile. You can find more work on Codeberg.org or my own Forgejo instance at code.jaenis.ch.

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We’re all learning all the time :)

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Sorry other priorities bumped this down.

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For what it’s worth, we are discussing the potential of a whole GenAI-focused category for the next edition of js13kGames and are very open to ideas and suggestions on how to make it both fun and educational.

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Edit: Yep, my use of the term “GenAI” was an oversimplification. My hope is for a category which gives access to ML-based tools and APIs in general, so GenAI would be just a subset of that. That said, the focus would still be on the use of them (in games, obviously), not on building them from scratch.

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No worries.

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I’m not a fan of GenAI. But that wasn’t the limit of the AI category. It reads:

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The goal is to create a game that makes use of NPCs in a way that hasn’t been seen before in most games.

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Non-Player Characters (NPCs) have mostly been used as side characters, companions, quest givers, or enemies in games. But do they have to be limited to these roles? Now that we have the affordances of new technologies such as generative AI and blockchain, we should start to re-imagine the role of NPCs in our games.

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To be considered for this challenge, your game must simply make use of NPCs. To win the challenge, your game must make use of NPCs in a thoughtful and innovative way. Subvert the traditional roles of NPCs in games and show us something new!

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So „such as” are examples, but not boundaries. Instead, I would see something less wasteful (in terms of energy and water) such as expert systems. Those have been known to be hard to scale. But js13kgames is already imposing a limit.

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Interesting game! Not sure what is going on but I like where you are headed!

\n","games":["Dekatria Mansion"]},{"typ":1,"at":379718524,"re":379666074,"author":"Ryuno-Ki","login":"Ryuno-Ki","gh":3097194,"url":"https://jaenis.ch/","text":"

Thank you :)

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Come back and finish it next time around!

\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"typ":1,"at":379718555,"re":379672152,"author":"Ryuno-Ki","login":"Ryuno-Ki","gh":3097194,"url":"https://jaenis.ch/","text":"

I’m definitively to take another shot on this. Improving from one submission to the next.

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I hope the research set you up to where you can finish next time!

\n","games":["Primonumerophobia"]},{"typ":1,"at":380255063,"re":380165907,"author":"Ryuno-Ki","login":"Ryuno-Ki","gh":3097194,"url":"https://jaenis.ch/","text":"

You bet :)

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The music was interesting and bouncy.

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Not sure where the game was heading because there’s not much there. But the premise sounded fun.

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Good luck if you continue the game or try again in another jam

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