[pipnonsense]

A soccer web game where you are the coach and your only possible interaction is shouting (ie typing) messages to your players from the sidelines. An LLM interpret your messages and pass instructions into the game engine.

It is a pretty fun project

[mbreese]

I could see this being a very eye opening game if you added "Fan" and "Parent" modes. In "fan" mode nothing you said would affect the game, although maybe a player would laugh once in a while. In "parent" mode, you'd have a youth soccer game where whatever you said would confuse the player and they'd perform worse.

Sounds like a fun project -- like a more interactive version of Football Manager.

[pipnonsense]

Neat ideas.

One thing I am exploring is that, with LLM (and enough $ to pay the tokens) you can filter out offenses and hate speech in player communications.

All typed message is effectively translated by the LLM as “coach speech” and what is put in the UI is the LLM output. Sure, it is not exactly the player words and can get expensive, but I think it can be a good solution

[mbreese]

It's really a good idea. I've spend a little time on the sidelines as a coach (and parent and ref, but that's another story) and one thing that I think is crazy is the differences in what you think you can affect, and what you really can affect from the sideline. The technical area is a really small facet on the larger game, so I think your idea would make for a fun game. And knowing how much time my son spends playing Football Manager, I think there's an audience for it!

[SparklyCircuit]

Honestly this seems like some perfect social LLM foundation for a research paper. Fun nevertheless