Course: CIS 700 Interactive Fiction and Text Generation. Advisors Prof. Chris Callison-Burch and Dr. Lara Martin.
This game named Steins;Gate, derived from the famous anime with the same name. It begins with a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the methods of changing the past via mail, using a modified microwave. Later, you (Rintaro) and your teammates are involved into a seires of tasks and consequences, including
- The death of Kurisu, your lover and the time machine theory founder
- The coming World War III triggered by the invention of time machine
In our game, we focus on the last part of the story. That is, you should travel back to a month ago to
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Save your lover (Kurisu) by deceiving the world
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Destroy the time machine paper taken by Kurisu's father to avoid Word War III
Your different action will lead to different timeline! There're 4 timelines waiting for you to explore!
The game can generate the images of location and item by the selected art style from pixray.
We generate the images of location and item by given different art styles (drawer) and prompt. Specifically, as for the prompt engineering, we follow the official instruction and weight the objects by importance during simultaneous prompting. We also try to avoid unwanted objects by setting negative weight with early stop. Both techniques work. Finally, we use two art styles, namely pixel and clipdraw, to render the images successfully.
For more detail, see this notebook.
In this game, the location and stationary items will pop out once you arrive at that location. The accessible items will show when you check your inventory in the game.
Time travel is a funny and timeless sci-fi topic, and it can trigger different endings (both happy ending and bad ending) by differenct implemetation. It's quite challenging yet interesting to adapt the in-class interactive text game into a new time travel game.