wake up game

I was very inspired by gandalf and thought people can make more natural langage based games. Long time ago we used to do state machines in Alexas but it just wasn't fluent enough.

I had this idea of having a game where you inject words into someones dream which adjusts how their day goes. I made a prototype with gpt 4 ages ago, which fell apart quickly, But now I could one shot the app itself using claude and by leveraging sonnet 4 I could make a cohesive experience.

The concept is:

1. We watch a guy/gal live his daily life and see his inner thought.
2. Every night we can inject words into his dream that change what he things.
3. However, when they are dormant, the dreams don't reach him intact, they are garbled. You can find glitches to progress their awakening.
4. The goal is for them to escape the matrix
5. The matrix tracks you and fights back to keep them inside

Incredibly, by sharing the claude artifact, people can load the game and use their own sonnet 4 as backend, costing me nothing. That is insane value proposition and I imagine a world when we connect with our Anthropic accounts to power any apps (which are just a frontend and prompt).

Here is the game for you to try in Claude! I have provided an api-key version for personal use as well. Download it, do what ever you want with it. It has a different playthrough every time and it picks on your writing style a lot. From a game perspective, it tracks several metrics including quality of your dream prompts and how much pressure you are putting in the character. I was amazed by how .. loose it is, but the system works really well because sonnet can fill in the blanks. I felt these kind of (short enough) narrative experiences should be explored more.