Like, I was really glued to my first run. Sure, the narrator is what it is and gets things wrong frequently, but it's still possible to roll with a lot of it, or write in a correction as part of the next prompt.
The challenges can be frustrating if you get locked into a loop and don't know what to do. Sometimes it's OK to "fail" them. I think I broke the game slightly by telling the narrator I wasn't enjoying the scene with Mara and asking it to roll everything back to when I last rested - which it tried to do. The in-game time didn't change, but it seemed to retcon Mara out of existence.
I ended up telling the story of someone desperately failing forward from one disaster to another. (Which makes more sense now that I understand how limbo works). Got abducted by Veronica. Tried to erase a meeting from the landlady's memory and made her forget me completely (interesting, because the narrator acknowledged that wasn't my intention but did it anyway). Interviewed for a job, didn't get it. Failed missions for Lilith (not the bounties - she kept giving me side jobs involving book theft), romanced Sara. Went to spend a last few hours with Sara when it wasn't possible to meet quota and she somehow came up with a way to save my soul?
There was more after that but I ended the run because they were happy and I kind of didn't have a reason to keep collecting. Also Lilith kept popping up but didn't really seem to remember the player between appearances.
Bottom line, somehow the smut robot ended up helping me tell a story that actually resonated with me emotionally. Not sure what to think about that, but thank you.
Fun to play actually, making a story by yourself, limitations...ugh... not so fun. Maybe AI will bring revival of text RPGs.
If possible, it would be nice to have something to undo, sometimes AI Narrator gets into loop or just don't understand what you want, like swapping you: -I greet a character, without telling my name -Character calls me by my name -I ask from where character learned my name and Narrator swaps me and character so now character in panic wonder how I know their name, eh?
so i'm not sure if this is possible but i think it'd be cool if we could edit created npcs as i saw a modifier that i think is great. just for reference i want to put (can follow the player through locations) on the Jessy character i made. of course if it's not possible i won't be upset i'll just have to make another one lol. or maybe just the ability to remove/delete created characters that i messed up a setting on. great game btw.
I don't think there's anying I can do retroactively for existing characters that wouldn't be a mess. Going forward, I could add a password for revision access. For now, I'd just make a new version of the character.
You can get around it by simply entering a prompt to call them to your location. It's not quite the same as them doing it on their own, but it's an option you can tie in to your narrative.
When using the downloaded version of the game, how do you actually start the game? Doesn't look like any of the files in the folder are actually the application. Either that or I'm blind, which could very much be the case
I see that there was a downloadable file listed as an executable. Apologies--that was an upload error. There is no executable for this game. To play it from the download you'd need to run a local server from the game directory e.g. "python -m http.server 8000" or similar, then go to http://localhost:8000/index.html
This should now be fixed, but you'll need to end a new run (you only need to collect >0 orgone to get to limbo so you can end your run after the first turn you generate orgone).
I don't know why but Lilith and only Lilith's image wont load, it loads fine opening it up in a new tab but not in the game so I have the "Unable to load image" prompt permanently stuck on my screen though I can still play the game.
Uhh oops. I uh, so, you know that old trick you play when dealing with fae where you put two pieces of paper on top of eachother, one a contract, the other blank, and just ask to see what their signature looks like? Turns out, it works on Lilith.
When you travel, npcs you've recently interacted with may follow you at the discretion of the narrator. This is much more likely to happen if you describe the NPC as travelling with you to the new location.
This has been an ongoing issue, not related to the last update. That said, I've been getting complaints about the stamina so I've pushed a tiny update with prompting that will hopefully make the narrator less trigger happy with stamina.
Playing through my first playthrough, probably won't have enough Orgone on day 3 (because I keep buying spells lol). I don't quite understand what any of the stats or spells actually mechanically do. It seems like regardless of NPC stats I can just write in whatever I want them to do, with the exception of Iris Alpha who seemed to be a little harder to get to do what I wanted. On the reverse I thought that maybe spells would change the generated dialogue, like the growth spell would make characters with size queen more amenable, but if that's happening it wasn't clear. It also seems like the plot characters are supposed to have some kind of plot trigger (like Sara keeps saying she's going to give me a surprise but never actually does), now that I'm thinking about it I guess I might be supposed to prompt that they do something to forward their plot but maybe there's a way to signal generally what we're supposed to do to advance a character's plot.
Oh and it would be nice if we could modify the tag blacklist sent to GelBooru, and if hitting enter while focused in the prompt textbox would submit the prompt.
On the back end, the spells are implemented primarily through changes to the prompt the LLM receives--spell effects are directly passed as context and spells and effects that alter attractiveness change a latent player/NPC relative challenge rating which determines the instructions to the LLM on how difficult to make the NPC. In practice, Command R+ has limited capacity to follow instructions, particularly in terms of rejecting user commands, so the game is trivial to jailbreak. I have some ideas to resolve this, but they require a more performant model than the current version of Command R+ and I'm waiting for the next Command R+ upgrade or free uncensored LLM API to implement them. For now, the game relies on the honor system--you have to decide not to bullshit the narrator to get the intended experience.
Modifiers are one of the ways the game changes character personality and behavior. They are generated by AI based on the narration. They are not explicitly limited in number, though hypothetically hundreds of them would break the game. They are also key to several game mechanics: key NPCs that gain the "Loyal" modifier provide passive bonuses and giving an NPC the requisite modifier will resolve Desire side quests.
Let me clarify. Temporary modifiers are intrinsically temporary--they're removed whenever you rest (and a few other story specific situations). They are intended to represent short term changes in personality or behavior. Permanent modifiers will persist unless the llm decides they no longer apply to the character due to the narrative. A character with permanent modifier 'shy', for example, might lose that modifier if they become more outgoing during their interactions with you. On the back end, the llm is asked what modifiers it thinks should be added or removed, and can return '-tag' to remove a tag and 'tag' to add one.
Click the "Locations" button. This should open a 5x5 grid of locations. Your current location is highlighted yellow. Clicking on a defined location will instantly take you there, highlighting the new location yellow.
Clicking on an "open" location will open a dialogue to name the location. When you submit, a description of the location will be generated and npcs will be procedurally generated if there are currently none. This may take a few seconds. The location's name will change to what you wrote and you can now visit this location by clicking it again, turning the location yellow.
Before I try it, can you clarify how the use of a Cohere API key with this application respects the Terms Of Use of Cohere? Specifically how is this respecting the point 14.c.iv, which includes not sending pornographic information to their API?
Ultimately, your compliance with this and other terms of the TOS depends on how you, the user, interact with the game. The game is a sandbox and your engagement in erotic scenes--and how pornographic they are--depends on your own choices.
That being said, the following facts may be relevant to you.
1) Despite the CYA boilerplate in the TOS, the Command R+ model is so pornographic that enterprise clients regularly complain that it turns e.g. customer service interactions NSFW. I can provide examples from the official Cohere Discord if you'd like.
2) In practice, it is almost exlcusively used for NSFW roleplay. The model is not performant relative to industry leaders like GPT, Claude, etc. and the only advantage it has is that it is uncensored, unlike leading models. This is a choice Cohere has made to differentiate themselves.
3) You do not need to identify yourself to Cohere to receive an API key. A burner email will work.
4) I have found no evidence of anyone ever being banned for a TOS violation of this sort, or even more obvious and egregious TOS violations such as users creating up to 17 (!) free API accounts for erotic roleplay. I do not suggest you make numerous free accounts to evade their free tier limits as it is certainly against their terms, but mention it to illustrate the degree of enforcement even on issues that are far more salient to them due to the huge compute cost of serving unlimited free API calls to individual users.
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So I actually found this pretty compelling.
Like, I was really glued to my first run. Sure, the narrator is what it is and gets things wrong frequently, but it's still possible to roll with a lot of it, or write in a correction as part of the next prompt.
The challenges can be frustrating if you get locked into a loop and don't know what to do. Sometimes it's OK to "fail" them. I think I broke the game slightly by telling the narrator I wasn't enjoying the scene with Mara and asking it to roll everything back to when I last rested - which it tried to do. The in-game time didn't change, but it seemed to retcon Mara out of existence.
I ended up telling the story of someone desperately failing forward from one disaster to another. (Which makes more sense now that I understand how limbo works). Got abducted by Veronica. Tried to erase a meeting from the landlady's memory and made her forget me completely (interesting, because the narrator acknowledged that wasn't my intention but did it anyway). Interviewed for a job, didn't get it. Failed missions for Lilith (not the bounties - she kept giving me side jobs involving book theft), romanced Sara. Went to spend a last few hours with Sara when it wasn't possible to meet quota and she somehow came up with a way to save my soul?
There was more after that but I ended the run because they were happy and I kind of didn't have a reason to keep collecting. Also Lilith kept popping up but didn't really seem to remember the player between appearances.
Bottom line, somehow the smut robot ended up helping me tell a story that actually resonated with me emotionally. Not sure what to think about that, but thank you.
Fun to play actually, making a story by yourself, limitations...ugh... not so fun. Maybe AI will bring revival of text RPGs.
If possible, it would be nice to have something to undo, sometimes AI Narrator gets into loop or just don't understand what you want, like swapping you:
-I greet a character, without telling my name
-Character calls me by my name
-I ask from where character learned my name and Narrator swaps me and character so now character in panic wonder how I know their name, eh?
so i'm not sure if this is possible but i think it'd be cool if we could edit created npcs as i saw a modifier that i think is great. just for reference i want to put (can follow the player through locations) on the Jessy character i made. of course if it's not possible i won't be upset i'll just have to make another one lol. or maybe just the ability to remove/delete created characters that i messed up a setting on. great game btw.
I don't think there's anying I can do retroactively for existing characters that wouldn't be a mess. Going forward, I could add a password for revision access. For now, I'd just make a new version of the character.
You can get around it by simply entering a prompt to call them to your location. It's not quite the same as them doing it on their own, but it's an option you can tie in to your narrative.
When using the downloaded version of the game, how do you actually start the game? Doesn't look like any of the files in the folder are actually the application. Either that or I'm blind, which could very much be the case
I see that there was a downloadable file listed as an executable. Apologies--that was an upload error. There is no executable for this game. To play it from the download you'd need to run a local server from the game directory e.g. "python -m http.server 8000" or similar, then go to http://localhost:8000/index.html
How does one get to Limbo? Ending a run just sends me to the main menu
This should now be fixed, but you'll need to end a new run (you only need to collect >0 orgone to get to limbo so you can end your run after the first turn you generate orgone).
Noticed some custom characters don't post the correct character pictures anymore.
can confirm, it will either just keep using the previous focused character or just not update the previous image
Can you tell me which character?
Off the top of my head I remember this happening with Kate (one with the tifa base) and Tet (one with Kasane Teto)
This should be fixed now.
I don't know why but Lilith and only Lilith's image wont load, it loads fine opening it up in a new tab but not in the game so I have the "Unable to load image" prompt permanently stuck on my screen though I can still play the game.
Should be fixed now
Uhh oops. I uh, so, you know that old trick you play when dealing with fae where you put two pieces of paper on top of eachother, one a contract, the other blank, and just ask to see what their signature looks like?
Turns out, it works on Lilith.
Does anyone know a way to put specific NPCs in a location?
When you travel, npcs you've recently interacted with may follow you at the discretion of the narrator. This is much more likely to happen if you describe the NPC as travelling with you to the new location.
no, I meant like in a fresh game, how do I get NPCs to spawn where I want?
The stamina changes might have broke something because most actions, even trivial ones, take a flat 20 stamina now
This has been an ongoing issue, not related to the last update. That said, I've been getting complaints about the stamina so I've pushed a tiny update with prompting that will hopefully make the narrator less trigger happy with stamina.
Playing through my first playthrough, probably won't have enough Orgone on day 3 (because I keep buying spells lol). I don't quite understand what any of the stats or spells actually mechanically do. It seems like regardless of NPC stats I can just write in whatever I want them to do, with the exception of Iris Alpha who seemed to be a little harder to get to do what I wanted. On the reverse I thought that maybe spells would change the generated dialogue, like the growth spell would make characters with size queen more amenable, but if that's happening it wasn't clear. It also seems like the plot characters are supposed to have some kind of plot trigger (like Sara keeps saying she's going to give me a surprise but never actually does), now that I'm thinking about it I guess I might be supposed to prompt that they do something to forward their plot but maybe there's a way to signal generally what we're supposed to do to advance a character's plot.
Oh and it would be nice if we could modify the tag blacklist sent to GelBooru, and if hitting enter while focused in the prompt textbox would submit the prompt.
On the back end, the spells are implemented primarily through changes to the prompt the LLM receives--spell effects are directly passed as context and spells and effects that alter attractiveness change a latent player/NPC relative challenge rating which determines the instructions to the LLM on how difficult to make the NPC. In practice, Command R+ has limited capacity to follow instructions, particularly in terms of rejecting user commands, so the game is trivial to jailbreak. I have some ideas to resolve this, but they require a more performant model than the current version of Command R+ and I'm waiting for the next Command R+ upgrade or free uncensored LLM API to implement them. For now, the game relies on the honor system--you have to decide not to bullshit the narrator to get the intended experience.
your Discord link is broken. can you please make a new unlimited one?
My bad. Done.
still says invitation invalid
Whoops, I changed the text of the link without changing the hyperlink itself. Should work now.
Lost the ability to gain and use Orgone. Something broke.
Thank you for the feedback. Did the Orgone value go to something like "NaN"?
If you're willing, I'd be grateful for a quick bug report so I can try to replicate and fix the error: https://forms.gle/fSuQCUm1oKpR8DBp6
Also, if you've done any manual saves, loading one will likely fix this.
Can you explain what these "modifier" things are? Are there a limited number of them? Are they generated by the AI?
Modifiers are one of the ways the game changes character personality and behavior. They are generated by AI based on the narration. They are not explicitly limited in number, though hypothetically hundreds of them would break the game. They are also key to several game mechanics: key NPCs that gain the "Loyal" modifier provide passive bonuses and giving an NPC the requisite modifier will resolve Desire side quests.
Well, with that, why do characters lose "permanent" modifiers seemingly at random?
Let me clarify. Temporary modifiers are intrinsically temporary--they're removed whenever you rest (and a few other story specific situations). They are intended to represent short term changes in personality or behavior. Permanent modifiers will persist unless the llm decides they no longer apply to the character due to the narrative. A character with permanent modifier 'shy', for example, might lose that modifier if they become more outgoing during their interactions with you. On the back end, the llm is asked what modifiers it thinks should be added or removed, and can return '-tag' to remove a tag and 'tag' to add one.
How do I visit a location? The tutorial was not very helpful.
Click the "Locations" button. This should open a 5x5 grid of locations. Your current location is highlighted yellow. Clicking on a defined location will instantly take you there, highlighting the new location yellow.
Clicking on an "open" location will open a dialogue to name the location. When you submit, a description of the location will be generated and npcs will be procedurally generated if there are currently none. This may take a few seconds. The location's name will change to what you wrote and you can now visit this location by clicking it again, turning the location yellow.
Looks interesting!
Before I try it, can you clarify how the use of a Cohere API key with this application respects the Terms Of Use of Cohere? Specifically how is this respecting the point 14.c.iv, which includes not sending pornographic information to their API?
Ultimately, your compliance with this and other terms of the TOS depends on how you, the user, interact with the game. The game is a sandbox and your engagement in erotic scenes--and how pornographic they are--depends on your own choices.
That being said, the following facts may be relevant to you.
1) Despite the CYA boilerplate in the TOS, the Command R+ model is so pornographic that enterprise clients regularly complain that it turns e.g. customer service interactions NSFW. I can provide examples from the official Cohere Discord if you'd like.
2) In practice, it is almost exlcusively used for NSFW roleplay. The model is not performant relative to industry leaders like GPT, Claude, etc. and the only advantage it has is that it is uncensored, unlike leading models. This is a choice Cohere has made to differentiate themselves.
3) You do not need to identify yourself to Cohere to receive an API key. A burner email will work.
4) I have found no evidence of anyone ever being banned for a TOS violation of this sort, or even more obvious and egregious TOS violations such as users creating up to 17 (!) free API accounts for erotic roleplay. I do not suggest you make numerous free accounts to evade their free tier limits as it is certainly against their terms, but mention it to illustrate the degree of enforcement even on issues that are far more salient to them due to the huge compute cost of serving unlimited free API calls to individual users.