Pitch, Please! by Kyle Farwell

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made by Kyle Farwell for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

A Gelato Labs production for Ludum Dare 54 "Limited Space".

As a recent college graduate you can't wait to assert your genius on the tech world but first you need to convince a bunch of random rich people that you're smart! Use your voice and come up with your elevator pitch on the fly! If the text box fills the elevator then you've run out of space and your pitch is over, hopefully you got funded.

The Gelato Labs "G-Team" for LD54 is:

Programming: Kyle Farwell (kfarwell)

Writing: GelatoSquid, Ryan Refcio

Art: Fuugul

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Ratings

Overall 732th 3.404⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 541th 3.48⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 19th 4.442⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 449th 3.808⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 675th 3.423⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 191th 3.7⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 511th 3.6⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

mDuo13
04. Oct 2023 · 05:44 UTC
The premise sounds funny, but I am not going to switch from Firefox to do speech recognition and I don't want a transcript being sent to OpenAI, either. I'll have to pass on this one, sorry.
Mr_Sun_
04. Oct 2023 · 05:47 UTC
It's an interesting concept with very neat art and dialogue, but i was not able to get the voice recognition to work when running in Edge... Looks cool though!
🎤 Kyle Farwell
04. Oct 2023 · 06:09 UTC
@mr-sun Sorry about that! Edge doesn't support the web speech recognition API unfortunately. Chrome and Safari should work.

@mDuo13 Fair enough!

Text transcripts only (no audio) are sent to OpenAI to judge your pitch. Unlike ChatGPT, API inputs are not used for training or retained long-term. Check out their [API Platform FAQ](https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy) for more info.

Support for speech recognition can be enabled in Firefox by toggling `media.webspeech.recognition.enable` in about:config, YMMV.

Chrome uses a cloud service for speech recognition. Firefox uses Google's service too, but Google doesn't store voice requests from [Firefox](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Web_Speech_API_-_Speech_Recognition#Where_does_the_audio_go.3F) and they are anonymized. Safari does speech recognition on-device on iOS 15+, otherwise using a cloud service.
Mocadium
04. Oct 2023 · 06:50 UTC
What an interesting idea! I was SO put on the spot with this one, which is how it must feel in real life, I loved it! Great use of AI technology, and cool prompts to get you started too! Great work :)
vlad-r
04. Oct 2023 · 19:21 UTC
This was 100% the most stressful experience in this Ludum Dare so far.

It's an interesting concept, and worked great in Chrome. Unfortunately, the weird-looking dudes were not impressed with my pitches.
Soul Grinder
04. Oct 2023 · 19:27 UTC
Really fun idea and some good humour (pitching an idea for Only-Cans) lol. Also the first game jam game that made use of my microphone. Nice work!
JunaGames
05. Oct 2023 · 03:34 UTC
Amazing title! Love the art style and character designs that was really awesome. There was some really funny parts in here and i think the game came together really well :D It's awesome to see the effort here. Really cool to see creative use of AI here <3
rankb
05. Oct 2023 · 05:09 UTC
I like your take on the theme and your usage of AI was interesting!
Bo Dangles
06. Oct 2023 · 01:57 UTC
Really innovative. Cool concept and execution. Also the art is great at setting the mood.

I know AI can be controversial but i love to see people try to use it to make games.
Lachlan James
08. Oct 2023 · 01:39 UTC
What an innovative response. You guys are definitely pushing that bleeding edge in terms of seeing what's out there to play with.
I wasn't able to get speech recognition to work in the time I had, but I can see all the gears turning - very, very cool response to the prompt and use of modern tools. Excited to see where this field goes and good on you for having a play with it during a jam.
Natano
09. Oct 2023 · 00:11 UTC
Wow!!! This game is so creative! I would never think about an elevator pitch for the theme! And the way it's so interactive with the player is awesome! That's really impressive!
fatEmperor
11. Oct 2023 · 08:03 UTC
Very unusual.
Raptorspank
11. Oct 2023 · 22:27 UTC
Really unique idea! Not necessarily the most fun gameplay so to speak, but definitely fun to mess around with and using AI to generate a response is a creative use of the tech at least. It's a neat take on the theme too, I wouldn't have thought about having a limited amount of space for your speech so great job on that too.
HerryFabien
13. Oct 2023 · 23:53 UTC
It feel like i should be paid to play this game xD
Played just after a Roleplay session so it was smooth transition.
Wenzav
18. Oct 2023 · 04:21 UTC
A very unique idea! The speech recognition works well even though English is not my first language!