I've been working on this on and off for almost a year at this point. It seems like such an obvious use case for an LLM but is one of those problems that seems much simpler than it is. I spent quite a while trying to figure out how to do this with local LLMs, then trying to figure out how to distribute it in a way that gamers would be able to easily install. The overall progression was: CLI app with local model -> CLI app with a finetuned local model -> Web app using .onnx models -> Godot app. I finally just wanted to see if the concept worked, so I bit the bullet and made it using cloud providers. I think it's in a pretty good place and I have genuinely interesting, funny and poignant moments. It tracks state much more accurately and fully than other similar projects without sacrificing the open-ended magic of the LLM dungeon master.

Nervejack

A cyberpunk text RPG where the world remembers

A cyberpunk text RPG where the world remembers