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Just played Heart of Fire and loved it. Mostly I enjoyed your dialogue. You are really starting to show yourself as one of the best writers of dialogue I've come across. Well done! I've never been a big player of games (I like RenAi for the stories) so I didn't know enough about games to be upset ab...

Umm... I should explain what I mean when I say that a lot of AI is a dead end. I don't mean that it is useless, just that I don't think it is not going to be part of "real" AI. Things like chatbots are not what I call "true" AI in that I consider them clever hacks, but until we g...

Sorry it took me a while to reply. I've been away for a few days. Reading back over my last post I realise I should have been a little clearer. Since about 1997 I've mostly been earning my income through building and programming 3d worlds, but they haven't been games. They have been in VRML (Virtual...

I'm greatly in favor of AI. Most of my work has been in building 3d virtual worlds and I have spent a lot of time working on ways to apply AI to characters in stories set in those worlds. 3d work seems to have fallen off for me lately so I've been exploring other things in the course of which I stum...

I gotta agree with PyTom that the human intelligence of the writer is a far more potent thing than the insect-like intelligence of current AI efforts, but at the same time I see AI as just another tool that a good writer might be able to use. As chronoluminaire mentioned, even small changes in the s...

Wow!
I laughed, I gasped, I despaired, I giggled, I swooned.
What a wonderful story! Thank you so much for making this.

Please don't ever stop writing.

Now I've started reading the stories on your website. I'm addicted.

Interesting thoughts. Thanks for the info. I'm one of those people who buys the DVD to watch all the "making of" featurettes. :) By the way I think you are wrong... you do have a good imagination. The Sight of Autumn is proof of that. But it doesn't just prove that you can imagine it (whic...

Wonderful work!! I am green with envy. :) I'm a newcomer here too, having never encountered ren'ai before (though I've been familiar with text interactive fiction for decades). I decided immediately that I should have a shot at making my own piece, adapting an existing story of mine. It is fantastic...

Wow! A lot of people.
I wonder how much of that has resulted from NaNo...?

I hope it continues as news spreads further and further about this wonderful stuff.

Maybe the socialist woman, Ségolène Royal, doesn't want to mention that how she would achieve her ends is partly to raise taxes. Sweden, which has had pretty-much the highest standard of living in the world for many decades, no poverty, universal healthcare, and an incredibly balanced society, also ...

Sounds like a lovely story idea.
Funny how sometimes the challenge of making something can be the greatest source of fun.

F.I.A -- I remember Starship Titanic... I still have it here. Pretty amazing game. Douglas Adams spent a couple of years (I think) working on that. It was all hard-wired, if I remember rightly, which is what made it so darned complex. That is, it was set up pretty-much like a standard IF piece. The ...

Papillon, yes! If the AI is playing the part of an AI then I think the human could be much more forgiving of blunders... if written right. It would be especially useful to have a backstory that encouraged the desire to help -- for instance if she is escaping from some threatening situation in which ...

DaFool -- It occurs to me that one way you could conveniently excuse some verbal blunders by an Alicebot is to fabricate a backstory that the AI character is foreign and is still learning English. At first I thought that harvesting a player's likes and dislikes would be really difficult. There are i...

Counter Arts -- interesting idea using the place and objects and people in the game as part of the input to an Alicebot, like the classic text adventure games do. I wonder how that would be done. In some respect it introduces some context... something that is largely missing from chatterbots. It cou...