Bards Battles by wdebowicz
Welcome to the Medieval Comedy Club!
You will face your friend Carl in a bards freestyle battle!
Check the painting theme, collect words and use them in your song!


Dev notes: - I'm sorry for the big file size [1.2GB]! game is using LLM for interactive text generation based on user input and the the model is part of the build so it can work offline. - Game is deployed to dropbox but you do not need account there to download it
| Windows | https://wdebowicz.itch.io/bards-battles |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/bards-battles |
Ratings
| Overall | 743th | 2.729⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 692th | 2.739⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 355th | 3.304⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 764th | 2.543⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 696th | 2.478⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 395th | 3.125⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 358th | 3.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 639th | 3.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 24🗨️ |

The only reason its big is the LLM haha
Honestly nice work. I think you've used AI in a way that adds to the game rather than the negative aspects haha
The first few were pretty funny and you can really write anything thats what I liked. I think it needed a bit "more" like an opposing from an enemy haha but honestly it was good! Its the first game of its type I've seen.
nice job! :D
If you're looking for detailed feedback, I'd like to see some sort of indicator when the AI is generating the next output. Right now, the screen just does nothing for a bit after you submit your words. So I ended up trying to click or push buttons randomly to try to advance the screen, then wondering if the game is just locked up.
Thank you for this, it's made me think more deeply about how to use LLMs within games
https://youtu.be/lamphPKDtRI
Very impressed technically with the LLM integration and I think you added it in a way that is interesting and unique and still provides the player with a lot of fun agency. I do wish there was "more" generally like perhaps a rival verse generated by an LLM as well that ALSO generated the terms from the image? And maybe you get to choose the image? Not sure but overall very cool concept!