[roryokane]

If anyone’s curious about games like this, the Scribblenauts series also has games that allow you to type the name of an object and spawn it in with game-like properties.

Scribblenauts is not LLM-based – its first game was released in 2009. The creators just spent a lot of time making a database of objects that people might ask for, their game properties, and what they look like in the game’s simple art style. Scribblenauts is also different in that it is a 2D puzzle platformer set in small levels that have their own goals, rather than a top-down MMORPG like Asciidia.

While I found the concept of Scribblenauts cool, I quickly grew bored of the puzzle levels and the shallow combat mechanics. It didn’t help that a Black Hole could solve almost any problem by destroying an obstacle. This game’s monetary cost for casting solves that, at least, though I don’t know if the economy would be a significant limitation in the long term.