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About This Game

A game where the power of stories shapes reality, driven by AI language model...

Adapted from Persian folklore: The brutal King Shahryar, enraged by suspected betrayal of his wife, takes a new bride each day only to execute her at dawn. You are Shahrzad, his next bride...

Can you end his reign of terror through your stories?

Inspired by Wittgenstein's notion: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

Unleash your imagination! Tell captivating tales to intrigue the AI-powered King, cleverly guiding him to mention words like 'sword', 'knife', or 'shield' - watch as they materialize into real weapons!

Brought to life by cutting-edge AI language models, each story is a unique creation - completely unscripted! But beware... strange words might provoke the King's wrath...

Collect weapons forged from your stories!

Generated in real-time based on your narratives! From shawarma kitchen knives to witch's spears... every weapon is one of a kind!

Battle the King in a world born from your tales!

Each battle is an unprecedented theatrical performance - weapon effects and even character dialogues spring from the stories you've crafted!

Features:

AI-Native Game:

• Powered by generative AI (especially large language models) as core gameplay mechanics. In other words, this innovative experience would be impossible without AI. Award-winning gameplay ensures every story is unique!

Pixel Art Aesthetics:

• Features distinctive pixel art and hand-drawn CGs! AI is used solely for the innovative storytelling gameplay - all artwork is created by human artists.

Challenge Traditional Norms:

• Break free from ancient patriarchal constraints with Shahrzad!

Academic Foundation:

• More than just a game - it's an academic and artistic project. We've published two papers on the game's systems, hoping to inspire more novel games!

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

As a pre-GPT game that started in 2020, the motivation behind this experimental game is to explore creative narrative gameplay based on conversational AI to bring players experiences they've never had before.
All game assets are manually made by artists in the team.

When we started this game as an art and academic project, our guiding principle was to use AI only to create novel gaming experiences that were previously impossible, not to replace human creativity in any way. Inspired by the ancient Persian folklore, the game's soul comes from us, the human creators, not the AI technology itself. AI is just the means by which this vision is brought to life and shared with you. As human artists and researchers, we hope this game serves as an example of how technology can be an actor, while human creators become the directors who shape it in artistic and innovative ways.

The main mechanism is: You narrate stories to the King, who is powered by large language model  (the LLM in our free trial is [GLM], and you can also use GPT 3.5 or 4 to play the game), and he continues your tale. You must guide him to mention specific weapon keywords. Each weapon is unique, with descriptions generated based on the stories you and the King create together. As you collect more weapons, a world emerges within the story and on the weapon cards.

As you collect more weapons, the story world materializes in both scenes and weapon cards. This is to realize a novel mechanism of 'bringing stories to life' while staying consistent with the game's art style. The story world's real-time imagery is generated through Stable Diffusion based on the tales you tell. We make a conscious effort to avoid using specific artists' styles to prevent infringement, maintain a general style, and ensure transparency. The main goal is to bring the stories to life in real-time while keeping it consistent with the game's artstyle. This means we ensure the real-time generated images in our game won't be mistaken for those created by particular artists or be overly similar to any artist's style. The base model we use is [Cheese Daddy], combined with [Pixelization] algorithm. These are all opensourced. The workflow is mostly explained in the academic papers we published.

Currently, we're a small and self-funded indie team without any funding or income for this project. And the demo is 100% free for public. We are awared that the stochastic and source-consuming generative AI technology still has ethical problems in terms of environment and authorship.  With appropriate future funding and support, we aim to address and reduce potential problems from generative AI technologies. We welcome any concerns, suggestions, or questions about our AI-generated content and processes at adaeden1001@gmail.com. Your feedback will help us improve and explore, and become more considerate.