Popular AI Dungeon Rise Through Collaborative Strength

Currently, AI Dungeon is one of the most well-known and beloved interactive fiction games. AI Dungeon is a free to play game by Latitude, Inc., revealed to the market in December 2019 for both PC and mobile platforms. AI Dungeon makes use of artificial intelligence to create the stories for its players. Especially, OpenAI’s text prediction program that excels at language modelling or predicting the next words in a particular sentence.

In March 2019, software developer Nick Walton entered AI Dungeon into a hackathon. ai dungeon is a type of affair for programmers, developers, and other individuals in the software designing community gather to create fully operational software. In the hackathon that Nick Walton was a part of, AI Dungeon turned out to be a sensation. There were also a few online users that subscribed to the game.

AI Dungeon is Nick Walton’s “passion project” that eventually resulted to his very own company Latitude, Inc. A typical trend among indie games slash passion projects are its perceived success due to the efforts of the supporting community. As a result, the free to play structure of AI Dungeon was sustained largely because of community support from crowd funds on Patreon, donations, volunteerism, and various other open source projects.

The release of the first version in May 2019 saw the game with around 2,000 players. When it was relaunched in December 2019, now donning its shiny GPT-2 model, the success of the game was palpable. In a matter of merely two weeks, AI Dungeon was enjoying a high number of around 700 players at any given moment in its server. Not only that, during that period, there were also around 100,000 players with 500,000 produced narratives. Less than two months following the release of its second version, the game had been accommodating more than a million users and has generated 6,000,000 content. Community backing also never stopped as seen on Patreon donations which are roughly a staggering $15,000 a month.

Unlike other interactive fiction games, AI Dungeon is unique because of how it produces the narratives for its users. More often than not, and possibly because of technological constraints, the stories in interactive fiction games are generated beforehand. Essentially, the stories are fixed and the fictional world of that game is repetitive. AI Dungeon uses the GPT-2 model of OpenAI which has a full 1.5 billion parameters determined by datasets from 8 million webpages. The practically never ending variation in datasets result in the natural creation of narratives which are permissible in many kinds of platforms. Because of GPT-2’s excellent text generation abilities, AI Dungeon has turned into a truly open world with the player’s imagination as its only hindrance.

AI Dungeon is a creative gamer’s pipe dream. Also, because of its ability to create stories boundlessly, the narratives are very distinct. Within the game, there are also seven situations that players can choose from: fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, zombies, cyberpunk, custom, and other archived models. Despite its lack of intense graphics or sounds, AI Dungeon became one of the best engaging games to date.