wordsmythe
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9 years ago Sounds really fun!
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Jeff Thompson notifications@github.com wrote:
Some plans, hatched mostly while sitting through a very long, very boring meeting.
A set of randomized characters, each with a house in a particular landscape and a set of personality and biological "genes". Each house is placed randomly in a 2D grid and a map of various terrain is grown from those seeds. The landscape will be a large island, to avoid them running off the map.
Over the course of the novel, the characters wander via set but randomized patterns. They can interact with the landscape, get and run low on food and water, bump into each other, etc. Their genes reflect their past and current conditions, and are mutated over time.
In many ways, this is a larger version of @dungeonbot http://www.twitter.com/dungeonbot, who wanders an infinite 2D dungeon. The character's sentiment slowly changes (over a period of a year or two) from generally optimistic to completely forlorn.
Genes might include:
- N previous terrain they've been on ("I'm wet and tired" if they've been slogging through a swamp)
- Hunger, thirst
- Miles walked
- Weather conditions (also mutating over time)
- The sentiment of recent interactions (det. through sentiment analysis)
- Preexisting personality traits (a generally positive or negative outlook, etc)
- Health
(Genes represented as binary strings encoding numerical states.)
Ideas on format and output:
- I imagine the output being images of the map with character positions, plus the text.
- Characters' speech might be pulled as Markov chains from novels with similar sentiments and/or outlook.
- Characters start as babies? Parent's personalities, situation, parenting, etc effect's character's development and future state.
- Terrain shapes initial personality?
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jeffThompson
Year two, second generated novel.