I grew up playing classic text adventures on classic computers, always loved them! I also love writing, it is part of my job and career, I'm a teacher and a researcher. So, I find text adventures as lots of fun, promoting creativity, the imagination, and thinking in general. Now, the introduction of LLMs are a huge deal, but often, AI chats say "yes" to everything, forget names and promises after a while, and nothing you do really costs anything. So, in using AI to build (co-build) this game, I was thinking of the following: - Weftwake remembers. Every name, place and fact your lines make true stays true. A journal keeps your threads, places and a map of where you've been. - The world pushes back at you, the writer. People can refuse, bargain and even lie, and things have a price (or not). - Stories have stakes and endings. Each chapter asks a question and closes earned, at a price, or lost. A finished story leaves its woven cloth. At the same time, stories don't have to have chapters and well-defined sections, the game can be played as a free canvas with no set ending - except when the writer wants it to. - It keeps going while you sleep. Overnight your story "dreams": it gathers what happened, brings back a thread you forgot, and draws a one-of-a-kind noir plate (Why Nois? I'm a bit fan of the aesthetic, but other plate aesthetics can be added later). - You can cut in any time: start typing and the narrator stops where you stopped reading. - Five ways to read it: a manuscript, a silent film, a blue print, a night newspaper and an amber terminal. Your stories are private and never used to train AI. It's for adults (18+). The first 40 turns are free, no card needed. The first 200 Patrons pay $4.99 a month for their first year, then $7.99. I'd love your most honest feedback: where it surprised you, what doesn't work and feels boring, broken?

Weftwake

Write what you do. The world writes back, and remembers.

Write what you do. The world writes back, and remembers.