RealmCraft | Powered by AI

In RealmCraft, you'll take control of your favourite fictional universe and make choices that define its governance. Your decisions mould the realm's very fabric.

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How it works

This prototype is driven by ChatGPT 3.5 and takes inspiration from the classic 2002 web game "NationStates." This is the first prototype of a concept I've been interested in for a while where I handle the frontend and basic logic and GPT acts as game master.

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Common errors

• The game might hang if it can't connect to the GPT API for some reason. It calls the API every time you request a new issue or get a result.
• The bars go from 0 to 1 with 1 being good and 0 being bad. GPT controls the bars so any unexpected behaviour will be due to GPT not following orders.
• I'm a newbie when it comes to configuring servers. Please let me know if you encounter any CORS errors.

Created in 1 week for the "GAME-A-WEEK" jam

What went right?

Thanks to the plugin Chat GPT for Games, Chat GPT integration was seamless and relatively simple to use. I already knew how to securely manage the server interactions for ChatGPT requests.

What went wrong?

Getting ChatGPT 3.5 to produce the kind of questions and evaluations I wanted was a bit of a struggle. It often gave extreme 'good or bad' judgments. Additionally, I ran into CORS issues when I launched the game on Itch, an obstacle I hadn't encountered before. Thankfully, it was a quick fix.

And what did I learn?

I had GPT-4 fine-tune the prompts I was sending to GPT-3.5, and the results were impressively refined. I also learned how to resolve CORS issues for deploying a server-connected game on Itch. But perhaps the biggest takeaway was discovering how effective GPT-4 can be as a coding collaborator.