Morndur is an asynchronous storytelling RPG: players submit free text — a few sentences, an action, a rumor, the weather turning — and at 20:00 CET an AI game master reads everything and packs it into one illustrated chapter of a continuing dark-fantasy serial. It never publishes anything on its own: no submissions, no chapter. A single voice is enough; with many, the engine has to sweat, weaving clashing intentions into one coherent plot.

Things that turned out harder than the writing model itself:

• Fairness. One loud reader must not dominate a chapter. An audit counts how much page-time each cluster of intents got versus how many voices backed it, and the chapter regenerates once if it is skewed.
• Continuity. Characters persist across chapters with secrets and beliefs; the world tracks unresolved hooks ("loose threads") and pays them off chapters later. Keeping a dead character dead is a database problem, not a prompt problem.
• Illustrations. The image model kept adding crowds of distant figures to empty establishing shots, and hands grew extra fingers. There is now a vision judge that scores every image and rejects retries up to three times.
• The boring 90%. Making a nightly unattended pipeline survive timeouts, partial failures and its own retries without ever publishing a half-baked chapter — that took longer than everything else combined.

Stack: FastAPI + Postgres; the writing model, image model and vision judge all run locally on my own hardware. Free, no account, and the story only moves when someone writes: https://morndur.com/

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/50836220

Bevy Game Engine Visually Explained

A visual tour of how Bevy helps you compose complex, emergent games from small independent systems and a data-driven architecture.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46903245

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