[Game Show Music]
Oh, my stars and galaxies! Ladies, gentlemen, and cosmic beings of all dimensions, welcome to the most exhilarating, interdimensional explosion of entertainment ever witnessed: "Mechs of Mayhem: Multiverse Showdown!" I'm your effervescent and ever-enthusiastic host, Orion Starstrider, and I cannot WAIT to take you on a thrill ride through the wildest reaches of the multiverse! Picture this, my fellow excitement aficionados: a daring and dauntless robot, plucked from the infinite possibilities of existence, and thrown headfirst into a high-octane, gladiator-style gauntlet against the most ferocious foes from every corner of space and time! Can you feel the excitement? I know I can! Each heart-stopping round, our gallant MechChampion will be zapped through wormholes to an entirely new dimension, where they'll face off against jaw-dropping adversaries and navigate mind-boggling challenges! And oh, the landscapes! We're talking neon jungles, floating battle arenas, and even the edge of a black hole! It's pure, unadulterated, interdimensional chaos, and I am just BURSTING with anticipation! Will our dauntless MechChampion rise above the maelstrom of multiversal madness and emerge victorious? Or will they succumb to the relentless whirlwind of foes and face the cold, dark abyss of defeat? The suspense is positively ELECTRIC! So, my dear thrill-seekers, prepare to be dazzled, amazed, and absolutely hooked as we embark on the most spellbinding, heart-racing, edge-of-your-seat adventure the cosmos has ever known! Welcome to "Mechs of Mayhem: Multiverse Showdown!" Let the interdimensional battle royale BEGIN!
Hello there 🙂,
This was an introduction from our not-so-kind host. Don't worry about him, I will tell you later.
This is the project that our team "Црън пръч црън трън гризеше. Тич, црън пръч, не гризи црън трън." developed during the Hack AUBG, 2023.
rogue.ai is a rogue like game where you play as a robot gone rogue in a gladiator survival multidimensional TV show where each run is a uniquely generated experience. The current tech stack includes Typescript, GPT, Stable Diffusion, Elevenlabs. The maps are procedurally generated using wave function collapse. The sprites for the map are also different every run - we use stable diffusion every time a new game starts based on the user prompt. Also, there is the naaarrator - the host of the TV show, who looks closely, comments on your actions and remembers everything you have done throughout the game.
Get ready for a multidimensional rumble!
How the overall game looks like
Some sprites and tiles that we played with:
Some narration responses:
The player performs poorly - "HAHALKJDF! That was pretty bad." - "Wow! You got hit twice. That's pretty bad!" - "You really must like bullets, ha?" - "You really can't dodge bullets, can you?", - "Looks like you're the bullet magnet today.", - "Getting hit again and again, are you trying to set a record or something?" - "Dodging is not your thing, huh? You're like a sitting duck out there."
The player finds a chest - "Congratulations, you found a bonus chest. Don't get too excited, it's probably just junk." - "You got a bonus chest! It's probably full of useless items though." - "You're lucky to have found that bonus chest. Too bad it's probably not worth much."
The enemies dodge the player's attack - "Nice try, but you missed! Looks like your aim is worse than your reflexes." - "You need to aim better than that. Your attacks are just too slow."
Some lies that we told ourselves - Milestone at 18:00 is going to be done no later than 19! 😁
In the beginning the user enters a prompt which, after getting expanded with some more visual descriptions, is used as an input to Stable diffusion, which generates the sprites and tiles that we use for the visuals of the game. After that, using wave function collapse a whole map is produced, which after scaling looks great in the game!
The gameplay is mostly comprised of what is called bullet hell game. The player has some health, which controls whether he levels up and whether he dies. There are many enemies which follow and try to surround and kill the player (using A*). There are also chests, (placed at random, with unique sprite, etc - you already know that 😄), which increase the HP of the player. Other stats that are collected include (TODO:) ...
During the game actions of the player are recorded and on occasion expanded using GPT to produce a snarky taunting
comment, which is then used as an input to ElevenLabs in order to produce an mp3 audio of the phrase told by the
custom voice that we setup - the voice of Cave Johnson.
At the end, there is a really nice "End of game" screen.
- Produce sound, based on the current actions that are taking place. NB: We already did that, however we were not completely satisfied with the result as it was way too simple, so we decided to temporarily remove it and upgrade the process later.
Live demo done at the hackathon
Slides used for the presentation
Reality show introduction by the narrator
Narrators