Hey, not sure what happened but this popped up shortly after I started the game:

@fulminderek that shouldn't happen. I pushed a small hotfix which hopefully fixes it. Could you also try clearing the cookies so your user session is reset? Thanks.

Very interesting project! I always like seeing more experimental takes on things so this was cool.
The only critique is maybe switching up the typing sound clip! hearing it repeated so much was driving me a little nuts lol

Ah yes, my favourite genre: existential dread.

The only thing i would criticize is that the typing sound doesn't fit the deletion of the text, and the text could get deleted as a whole block.

Now I need to go outside. Thanks for that!

I was enjoying the experience


but then ...


I like the typing interface and the tone of the conversation. Feels a bit like that game where you have to ask an AI to help you through a typing interface in space ... need to remember the name of that ... and also Tacoma.

Thanks for playing @chuchugeralt and @deylinia!

Hope it wasn't too bad :P

(And I'm sorry for the keyboard sound, managing audio in HTML5 is a real pain :()

@thevinter would you be open to sharing a github for this? I'd be really curious about how it was made as someone learning web dev currently.

@velvetlobster I'm sorry to hear that. Would you be so kind to provide me the name you used so that I can try and debug the issue? Thanks.

@deylinia Here it is. It's a bit of a mess so good luck :eyes: (Feel free to contact me if you're curious about something)

https://github.com/thevinter/ileftbehind.me

@thevinter when the chat asked the name I was trying to make conversation so I wrote "what?" something like that :laughing:

I really wanna see the end of this

The existential dread came outta nowhere. You've done an amazing job capturing the right mood for the game. The music and the writing work so well together. The setting was so cool. Combining OpenAI and GPT with this idea of an AI stuck in a cache somewhere trying to survive. Loved it. Genuinely heartfelt.

The interactions were so freaky, especially the "No, your real name" bit in the beginning. Loved the way you danced around the player and predicted how they'd interact with the bot.

It boxed me in a little with the "Yes" and "No" at points, where if I replied with an "I am", it would take that as a rude non-answer. Obviously not something that can be planned for without a ludicrous amount of testing, but it's the only thing that was immersion breaking.

The story itself, I think the second half is weaker than the first. The set-up is so awesome, but it kinda loses it's thread after a while. Though the message of survival and making the most of life is a beautiful one, the execution isn't the best.

However, the ending is so beautiful. Forgetting my name one last time, asking for it again, then saying goodbye. I think if the middle was more cohesive, it would've been perfect.

The music is so beautiful and powerful. I loved it so much. Can't wait to check out more of your work!

It was a bit hard to get to the end because of slowness of typing and amount of text, so I ended with checking source code to read all the phrases, but anyway, despite my impatience this... art? very impressed me

Very cool concept and idea

Oh. And wanted to say that listening to key presses not synced with typing for such long time was quite disturbing

I absolutely love the idea and the beginning of the story, I just wish the typing animation was faster/skippable. I realize it would probably break the immersion, but because of how slow it is I had to leave mid-session and lost my progress, so I'll have to start over now because I want to finish it. In any case, great job! :)

I was wondering how it knew all those things, this is awesome! Sadly, when I had to choose which subject I wanted to talk about, the page crashed. I have the same error as @velvetlobster has

really emotional experience, gave me a lot of inspiration for my own work.
Thank you for making some thing unique, it was a great experience.

Good work!

@velvetlobster I fixed your issue, not sure what caused it but i think it should work for you now. (It remembers the progress so you don't have to start over)

@steve-dragon Thanks for the long review. Appreciated it. I agree with the story part, I'm not a writer so I kinda went with the flow there, I agree it could've been better but I'm glad you appreciated it overall :)

@yogurtthehorse Thanks for trying it! Sadly the keyboard thing is caused by inconsistencies in the html5 audio player. I tried fixing them for hours with no luck :/

@13x666 The typing is indeed slow, but it was made that so that even non native speakers could understand it. I should've added an option to skip to the end, but didn't have time to do it :(

@wouter52 I'm sorry that happened. I'm noticing some weird behaviour there but im not sure how to fix it. Probably a race condition... If you can provide me the name you used or directly your user token in the cookies it would help me with debugging why it happens. Thanks.

@okamit Glad you appreciated it, thanks.

Checked it out.
I think this game should be connected to internet radio with music like this: https://youtu.be/mjwmWPoHqW4
Liked moment where game asks you about your favorite music, and promises to check it out but there is no outgoing requests in dev tools.
Tbh I like such experiences, but phrases and manner of talking just too similar to dude I know. He already got everyone with horoscopes, so I quickly got bored.
Great work! Wish to see more talkative project that use interactive aspect of games to talk/deliver message, like good books. So few games/movies/tv series etc do it today. Imo, basically the only genre that likes to do it today - hard sci fi.

I love the concept and the mood that you created there, but the typing noise is really driving me crazy at some point, I could have muted the tab but everyone is talking about how lovely the music is so I was waiting for it haha (but is tehre really a music after the one from the intro ?). Anyway it's refreshing to see new ideas and people trying stuff here in the LD ! Good job

This is exactly what i expect in game jams, risks and experimentation, i really enjoyed this game, Thank you so much :heart:

Very cool idea, I love the theme and the concept. My only (hopefully) constructive criticism is that for what it wants to deliver some parts are maybe too long and can feel a bit repetitive. Nonetheless great work and great idea!

Love the idea behind this!
One feedback would be that it sometimes gets a bit slow with the deleting of text. Maybe the typed text could just disappear after awhile? Would also be awesome to be able to fast forward the typing a bit.
I lovelovelove GPT3 so this was a really nice experience. Thank you for making it!

I played the game 'til the "lighten up the mood". I chose sea and now I cannot see any text. I hear the keystrokes though

First of all: I REALLY liked the game and the idea of it.
But to be honest at the end I didn't really read a lot of the text, because it was appearing and deleting so slow, that I spaced out waiting for the text.
I feel like making the text appear faster, but making the next message not based on a timer but a trigger one can press when finished reading would make the whole experience better.

It just does not make sense for an AI to type this slow :sweat_smile:


Also some of the tech stuff (like why the hell does the bandwidth usage cause memory to get deleted) sounds just really weird to a programmer and it threw me off a bit.

Again an AI should know better than that.

There were some typos, too, but since you wrote a lot of text I can totally understand those slipping through and that's just part of it being a jam game =)

I also had the crash, but relatively close to the beginning and after clearing the cookies it worked perfectly fine and that was also pretty okay for a jam game (I mean it's almost impossible to produce a bug free game in any time frame let alone in 72 hours).

Still, if the crash happened later, I probably wouldn't have tried it again, because of the speed of the text.

But again, I really liked the idea and the vibe you were going for! :smile: