Welcome to Hidden Door: Storytelling and Narrative Games You love stories.You crave tales of heroes and villains, quests and mysteries, drama and comedy. As technology marches on, artificial intelligence has gotten pretty good at generating stories on demand. You can tap into massive datasets and neural networks to cocreate interactive fiction and shape narratives as you go. But there's still something missing — heart. Soul. That human touch. What if you could build stories with an AI system that understands narrative and dialogue, but also has a personality? A sense of humor and flair? You'd have an AI storytelling partner to craft tales with, bounce ideas off of, and explore fictional worlds in an entirely new way. The future is here, and it's time for you to team up with a witty, whimsical AI to write the stories you've always wanted to experience. Adventure awaits! The story starts now. Building Immersive Worlds With Language AI Welcome to Hidden Door, an exciting storytelling adventure where you shape the narrative! This imaginative game lets you craft an interactive story with friends. Choose Your Own Adventure In Hidden Door, you get to make key decisions that alter the course of the tale. Will your characters face danger or delight? Love or loss? You decide! At each plot point, vote to determine which path the story will take. Majority rules in this game of twists and turns. Endless Possibilities With so many options to pick from, no two stories will be the same. You might start as pirates searching for buried treasure but end up time traveling to ancient Egypt. Or begin as detectives investigating a mystery in a spooky mansion and wind up in a wild west showdown. The possibilities are endless! Collaborate and Compete Work together with your fellow storytellers to craft the best adventure. Discuss each choice and try to convince others why your option is the most exciting. While cooperation is key, there's also an element of competition. Earn points for having your choices selected to guide the story. Who will shape the most engaging tale? Hidden Door provides hours of imaginative fun. Gather your friends, start a new story, and escape into a world of fantasy and adventure. Where will your story lead? There's only one way to find out. Open the Hidden Door and let the storytelling begin! The Fun and Challenge of Machine Learning for Entertainment Building immersive worlds is where AI can really shine in narrative games. With the power of language models, you can generate massive amounts of world-building details, character backstories, location descriptions, and more. AI lets you quickly flesh out the little details that bring a world to life. Want to know the name of a tavern in some remote village? Boom, here's a name and quick description. Need a reason why there's an old abandoned tower in the forest? AI can spin up a little backstory on the spot. These small details accumulate to create a sense of depth in your world. Rich, Dynamic Characters Nothing is more immersive than complex, multi-dimensional characters. AI can generate character backgrounds, motivations, secrets, and relationships on the fly. As players interact with characters, the AI can use what it already knows about the character and world to determine how they would respond and evolve over time. Characters can become far more dynamic and complex than any pre-written dialog trees. With AI, you have a co-creator that can instantly generate all the world-building details needed to support an open-ended narrative game experience. The world and characters can become vastly more reactive, evolving to match player choices and actions. An AI system keeps track of all details, events, and changes to provide a coherent experience. The future of immersive narrative games is bright thanks to the creative power of AI! With the right tools and systems in place, small teams will be able to craft expansive worlds and truly open-ended stories. The adventures we'll experience will be dynamic, personal, and wildly imaginative. The future is going to be fun! Behind the Scenes: Starting a Company at the AI-Games Intersection The possibilities for entertainment and storytelling are endless when you combine human creativity with machine learning. Creating narrative games where players interact with AI characters poses an exciting challenge as an AI system has to understand context and generate appropriate responses on the fly. Unlimited potential for interactive storytelling With language models trained on massive datasets, AI can tap into a vast range of knowledge and language to create life-like conversations. As models continue to improve, interactions will become more engaging and complex. The potential for interactive storytelling through conversations with AI is hugely promising! - AI can take on the role of different characters with distinct personalities, voices and backgrounds. - Stories can branch in new directions based on a player’s inputs and choices. - Players can shape stories through natural conversations rather than selecting predefined options. Fun for creators and players alike Building systems for interactive storytelling is a fun challenge for developers and researchers in natural language processing and machine learning. It allows them to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and create experiences that wouldn’t have been feasible before. For players, conversing with AI characters and influencing a story as it unfolds can lead to surprising twists and turns, making for an engaging experience. The more systems improve, the more rewarding these interactions will become. While still an emerging field, interactive storytelling with AI has huge potential for entertainment. With continued progress in machine learning, language models and context understanding, conversational AI will open up new possibilities for creative expression, education and more. The future of interactive narratives and gaming just got a lot more interesting! What's Next for Humans and Machines? Exciting Possibilities Ahead Behind the Scenes: Starting a Company at the AI-Games Intersection Have you ever wondered what goes into launching a startup at the cutting edge of technology? As founders of Hidden Door, an AI company building narrative adventure games, we’ve been on quite the rollercoaster ride. After years of research in artificial intelligence and interactive storytelling, we knew we were onto something really special. We built a prototype game using our AI engine and playtesters loved it! At that point, the only logical next step was to start a company. In the beginning, it was just the two of us working out of our garage. We spent months improving the AI, designing levels, creating characters, and polishing the gameplay. Late nights fueled by pizza and Red Bull were common, but we didn’t care—we were passionately bringing our vision to life! Once we had a solid demo, we began pitching to investors. It was thrilling and nerve-wracking all at once. After many meetings, we found investors who shared our love of narrative games and believed in our mission. With funding secured, we were able to hire an amazing team to help us launch our first title. Now, just over a year later, we have a team of 15 and our game is available on major platforms. The road to get here was long but rewarding. We’ve learned so much along the way and still feel like we’re just getting started. The future of AI-based interactive stories is bright and we’re excited to be pioneering this new frontier of gaming! If you have an idea you believe in, don’t be afraid to take risks. Build a prototype, start small, look for funding, and grow your team. Stay passionate, work hard, and keep pushing forward. You never know, that little idea could turn into the next big thing! Starting a company is challenging but so worthwhile—if we can do it, you can too. The adventures (and misadventures!) are just beginning!