AI Dungeon

50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron A. Reed
AI Dungeon points to one radically different possible future for text games, one which might seem nearly unrecognizable to fans of a medium that’s always been more lovingly hand-crafted than automated. And yet in another sense, it continues traditions enmeshed in text games from the beginning: not just in its dungeon-crawl and parser aesthetics, but in the way it recalls early chatbots like Eliza, PARRY, and RACTER, which fascinated the earliest computer users with their illusions of humanity. The yearning for computers to dream and create alongside us has existed since the earliest software written for pleasure. The challenge, as with any new technology, lies in making sure it enriches our lives rather than diminishing them.
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