Soul Seasoned

AI-Powered Visual Novel

Overview

You are the owner of a surreal roadside diner, crafting your own story as you interact with customers who come to you for food and a shoulder to cry on. Each interaction shapes the customers’ lives beyond the diner’s walls, determining whether they find peace or remain lost in their personal struggles.

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Gameplay

The Daily Routine: Players host two customers per day. They would converse and order from players until the point LLM thinks it’s a good point to stop, or if the player’s behavior becomes disruptive.

Trust Mechanics:
As players provide better advice and meaningful interactions, customers will increase their trust meter. Higher trust levels unlock deeper, more personal dialogue regarding the character’s internal conflicts.
Revisits:
Customers’ struggles usually cannot be finished by only one visit. Everytime a customer leaves the diner, new story beyond the diner wall created. Maintaining a good relationship with customers, players can learn their accumulative stories and help them to solve the struggles.

LLM Engineering

LLMs in this game are responsible for both conversation and long-term narrative consequences.

General Chat:

It would be responsible for the general conversation with players.
Each customer has their own external and internal struggles that will gradually be provided as background information to LLM as trust meters go up.
It would terminate the conversation if the LLM thinks this conversation is reaching a stop.

Prediction Engine:

Customers will visit multiple times; what happens between visits depends on the players’ conversation with them. After a round of conversation, we will send the chat history to the Prediction Engine and ask it to predict what action this customer will take: Did they benefit from the conversation, or did they just continue their life as they were?
The next time a customer visits will bring new topics about their lives beyond the diner, an “off-screen” event, giving players the sense that their conversation really matters to those customers.