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 and Mac.

The game is free to play with token limits, supported by LLM GLM. ♥ You can also use GPT 3.5 or 4 to play it, but it will need your own OpenAI key. Please check OpenAI configuration tutorial for configuration.

✨ 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, 目前支持Windows与Mac

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 content creator / researcher / curator 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 fill out the access form here.  ⭐This GPT-4 will be more stable in experience.

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

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. All arts 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.

This real-time imagery is generated through Stable Diffusion based on the stories 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 harm 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.

1001 Nights is currently in the demo stage and undergoing active development. 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

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。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 与我们联系。非常感谢！

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