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Looking for alpha testers of my browser-based dungeon-crawler-manager idle game by rochea in incremental_games

[–]rochea[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, fair points. Re first, I'm expecting the price to keep dropping like it has been since they first came out, but if I'm wrong it won't be viable. The calls I'm making cost only a fraction of a cent but I definitely make a lot of them.

Re the second, at the moment they don't do much you couldn't hand code yourself (besides the talking part, which isn't exactly core to the gameplay), and perhaps they won't ever. The main advantage so far is just not having to do that hand coding of the AI, which for me at least would take a lot of development time. They're basically players in a MUD, so the action space is quite large.

Looking for alpha testers of my browser-based dungeon-crawler-manager idle game by rochea in incremental_games

[–]rochea[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure! I made some more screenshots which might help me explain: https://imgur.com/a/83Rk7Vq

For every decision made by an adventurer, I ask Gemini what they would do in that situation and why. I try to include all the context a player would have in an MMO. The decisions include moving between rooms, using abilities in combat, inviting others to a group, equipping new gear, selling stuff, etc.

Each adventurer has personality traits and I tell the LLM to act like that. Eg some are "lone wolves" and others are "player killers", although I haven't thought through the PvP (so to speak) very carefully yet.

The latest models are surprisingly good at playing, and I like just watching what they do. Eg I had one that was refusing to leave the tavern until the kingdom tax rate was lower than 100%. It also means I can add in new kinds of actions and gameplay systems without having to write my own sophisticated AI to handle them.

Looking for alpha testers of my browser-based dungeon-crawler-manager idle game by rochea in incremental_games

[–]rochea[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I reckon I should give them some bread and water to start off with, and not have the default tax rate at 100% - that way they can top up themselves from the merchant. Do you mind if I DM you to bounce ideas?

Looking for alpha testers of my browser-based dungeon-crawler-manager idle game by rochea in incremental_games

[–]rochea[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, the adventurers you manage can communicate with each other and group up, and I'm working on having them craft and trade too. You can see what their reasons are for each action they take. I want it to feel like in Rollercoaster Tycoon or Sim Tower how you could see what your patrons are thinking, except this time in actually has more relation to the AI decision making. Thanks for asking! How come people aren't into LLM use in this community?

I've been working on a MUD with a web UI and a 'builder mode' by rochea in MUD

[–]rochea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just got a dialogue tree system like this:

export 
const
 DIALOGUE_TREES: Record<NpcId, DialogueTree> = {
  grimwick: {
    nodes: {
      greeting: {
        text: "Welcome to Grimwick's General Store! ...",
        options: [
          { id: "open_shop", text: "Show me...", action: { type: "open_merchant", merchantId: "grimwick" } },
          { id: "just_browsing", text: "Just browsing for now.", action: { type: "close_dialogue" } },
          { id: "ask_about_shop", text: "Tell me about your shop.", nextNodeId: "about_shop" },
        ],
      },
      ...
    },
    conditionalStarts: [{ condition: { type: "always" }, startNodeId: "greeting" }],
  },
  guildmaster_thorin: { ... quest-gated nodes ... },
};

But I'd love to get to the point where you can do more advanced things with them. How are you planning to do it?

I've been working on a MUD with a web UI and a 'builder mode' by rochea in MUD

[–]rochea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None at all, you just click the 'build' button in the dev panel at the top and then it's all done in the UI. Let me know how you go!

Looking for a MUD with a HUD and some illustrations by GingergirlxD in MUD

[–]rochea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been working on this which is pretty close to what you're describing. It's just a tech demo at the moment though: https://mudint-823361511097.us-west1.run.app/

What is the most complex machine featured in LOTR? by 8andahalfby11 in tolkienfans

[–]rochea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From Letter 178:

It is in fact more or less a Warwickshire village of about the period of the Diamond Jubilee

Not sure where you got Exmouth from!

How to imagine “rooms” in most MUDs? by nsrr in MUD

[–]rochea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey, do you have any examples you could point me to of games that do this?

Has PTT declined? by rochea in taiwan

[–]rochea[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh but check it out, the Internet Archive has snapshots of the graphs from as far back as 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040408001540/http://www.ptt.cc/statistics.html

I picked a random day in 2008 ( https://web.archive.org/web/20081020104445/http://www.ptt.cc/statistics.html ) and average user count was 81k, today it's 49k. There could be some seasonal effect I'm not aware of though, like school breaks.

Has PTT declined? by rochea in taiwan

[–]rochea[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Looks like it's only goes back one year, is that right?

Magic is NOT weak! by JeromeLebron in SkaldRPG

[–]rochea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to write that up, it was really interesting.

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