1001 Nights - AI-Native Storytelling Game

This is an AI-native game driven by large language models (LLM). Start a journey in the ancient Persian Empire as the girl Shahrzad! You have the magic turning language into reality, so you need to tell stories to the King, lead him to mention weapon words, and turn those into the real equipments to revenge on him! The fate of the world is yours to rewrite!

This game supports Chinese (Simplified) and English. Supports Windows (Will add Mac in future) 

English players will need an OpenAI Key to play the game currently. Thank you for understanding ♥ You can get free credits when registered OpenAI. Please find the tutorial here: LLM configuration tutorial English or apply for the private version below.

✨ This is a game playing with AI in a creative manner, not a game made by AI ✨

《1001 Nights》是款由大语言模型驱动的AI原生游戏。玩家扮演的山鲁佐德可以将语言转化为现实，因此你需要为国王编造一个精彩的故事，诱导他说出有关武器的话语，使其成为你手中的复仇的利刃……

本游戏支持中英文, 目前仅支持Windows. Mac版本仍在开发中。

中文玩家可以免费进行游戏，但是有额度限制 ♥ 如果您希望自己配置OpenAI LLM服务，请查看：大语言模型配置 中文教程

🎮 Heyyy! If you are a streamer/ member of the press / researcher / influencer etc. and would like to access the private view version of our game (powered by GPT-4) without the need for an OpenAI key, please contact our admin on Discord or fill out the access form here.  ⭐

This game was developed as an academic/art project in 2020 (way before the release of ChatGPT). Welcome to check our papers. 

Please note:  these two papers are over one and two years old, respectively. Therefore, there is definitely some discussion, especially regarding the ethical use of AI, that needs to be updated and improved.

这款游戏先前是于 2020 年作为学术/艺术项目开发的（早在 ChatGPT 发布之前）欢迎阅读我们的论文！

V2 Paper (2023, new version)

Y. Sun, Z. Li, et al.，“Language as Reality: A Co-Creative Storytelling Game Experience in 1001 Nights using Generative AI”，AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-23) https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/27539

V1 Paper (2022, Early version)

Y. Sun, X. Ni, et al. , “Bringing Stories to Life in 1001 Nights: A Co-creative Text Adventure Game Using a Story Generation Model”, International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_42 Also available at ResearchGate

The motivation behind the game is to explore the creative narrative gameplay based on conversational AI. Started from 2020, our objective is to see if it was possible to make engaging mechanic. All major game assets are manually made by artists in the team, and only used AI visuals to assist minor components, e.g. far background sprite and carpet textures. Please see the in-game notice for the detailed credits.

The main mechanism is: You narrate stories to the King, who is powered by GPT-4 or 3,5, 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. 

This real-time imagery is generated through Stable Diffusion based on the stories you told, and we avoid using any  specific artist name in prompt to maintain a general style and keep the transparency that we can reach. 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. 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 harm from generative AI technologies. We welcome any concerns, suggestions, or questions about our AI-generated content and processes at adaeden1001@gmail.com or in comments and our Discord. Your feedback will help us improve and explore, and become more considerate.

1001 Nights is currently in the demo stage and undergoing active development. We will continue to update the content and aim to provide a free access and Mac version as soon as possible. 

As you explore the game, you might encounter bugs. If you have any feedback, or come across any bugs, please fill out this feedback form or contact us at adaeden1001@gmail.com or Discord

1001 Nights 目前处于试玩阶段, 我们仍在持续开发。我们将持续更新并添加更多内容，并尽快支持Mac版本。

当你进行游戏时,可能会遇到一些Bug. 如果你希望反馈游玩体验，或遇到任何Bug,请填写此 中文反馈表, 或通过 adaeden1001@gmail.com 或 Discord 与我们联系。非常感谢！

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