Right now, AI Dungeon is one of the most well-known and beloved interactive fiction games. AI Dungeon is a free to play game by Latitude, Inc., revealed to the market in December 2019 for both PC and mobile platforms. By using artificial intelligence, AI Dungeon are able to make the narratives. AI Dungeon particularly uses the text prediction program of OpenAI that is known for expertly calculating what the next words will be in a sentence.

Software developer Nick Walton took part in a hackathon in March 2019 where he promptly submitted AI Dungeon as his entry. A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, as well as other people included in software designing meet up with the end goal of making fully functioning software. AI Dungeon was a smash in the hackathon that Nick Walton joined in. There were also a few online users that subscribed to the game.

AI Dungeon is Nick Walton’s “passion project” that eventually resulted to his very own company Latitude, Inc. A common trend among indie games slash passion projects are its perceived success due to the efforts of the supporting community. With this, Latitude continues to keep the free to play model of AI Dungeon because of consistent community backing through Patreon crowd funding, donations, voluntary developer work, and other open source projects.

The initial version of AI Dungeon in May 2019 had pretty much 2,000 gamers. However, when AI Dungeon was yet again released in December 2019, victory hit hard. In a matter of merely two weeks, AI Dungeon was enjoying a high number of around 700 players at any given moment in its server. Furthermore, 100,000 were estimated to have played the game at some point and they generated at least 500,000 stories. Less than two months following the release of its second version, the game was already accommodating more than a million users and has generated 6,000,000 content. The support for AI Dungeon is also evident from the donations on Patreon which amounts to $15,000 a month.

What separates AI Dungeon from other interactive fiction games is the method by which it generates stories. Oftentimes, the content of interactive fiction games are pre-determined also possibly due to technological disadvantages. These preset versions of interactive fiction games have unchanging content and could possibly be dull over time. AI Dungeon uses the GPT-2 model of OpenAI which has a full 1.5 billion parameters based on datasets from 8 million webpages. The practically never ending variation in datasets result in the natural creation of narratives which are permissible in many kinds of platforms. Due to the usage of GPT-2, AI Dungeon is a fully-functioning open text world with the user’s imagination as its only limit.

AI Dungeon is a creative gamer’s pipe dream. Also, because of its ability to create stories boundlessly, the narratives are very distinct. Also, AI Dungeon currently has more than seven settings or genres that players can choose from, particularly: fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, zombies, cyberpunk, custom, and other archived models. Despite its lack of intense graphics or sounds, AI Dungeon became one of the finest engaging games to date.