AA!RM

Relative

Madness

AA!RM is a gaming laboratory

comprised of math scientists, engineers, designers and writers.

Would you like to have your book translated into a mobile narrative game?

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Open call

We are looking for novellas and novels in English to license and use.

Currently, we're especially interested in thrillers, romance, cozy mysteries and detective stories.

Feel free to send the first chapter of your book together with a small description to us.

LINES OF

RESEARCH

Consistent dynamic lore with timekeeping

Plot generation

Multi-level characters

Free input control

Consistent Dynamic Lore with Timekeeping

A detective found a clue. Who else will find out and when?
What if author makes a flashback into times when the clue hasn't been discovered yet?
How fast or slow will this knowledge propagate through time in the game world?
What does the perpetrator think when they find out about all of this?

These and other questions like these is what we're trying to formalize, universalize and implement.

Plot Generation

Not all plots are created equal. Some are consistent, some are not. Some are dynamic, others are slow-paced. Importantly, most are boring.

We are building tools to generate plots on the fly, making them as weird and twisty as we want them to be, at the same time keeping with certain meta-rules of consistency put in place by the authors.

Multi-Level Characters

For us, each AI character is a combination of many things: their past, memories, attitudes, emotions, goals and that je ne se quoi that makes them a character, and not a realistic human. We strive to control and program all these elements independently, building next-generation NPCs that are much more than just “free text”.

Free Input Control

Problematically, with AI, you can ask for hot-dogs in medieval Europe. We develop design tropes and mechanics compensating for inconsistencies of free-text user input within all sorts of genres and circumstances.

WHAT IS AI-POWERED

NARRATIVE GAMING

What it's NOT is talking to AI NPCs all day.

What it might be, is:

Building consistent textual worlds within narrative MMOs where each player's decision changes states of affairs for others.

new dimension in audio storytelling

A whole new genre to play in a car or on the go, screen-less, controlled purely with voice — a mixture of podcasts, voice messages and audiobooks.

Master Your Character's Mind

Granular control over functions of your character's psychology, phobias, capabilities, traumas and subpersonalities.

Endless Possibilities

Games with a hundred different endings, with no clear wins or losses, just the joy of finding your own path.

CORE TECH

KAMI

A framework we licensed from AAIC for ultra-realistic characters with thoughts, emotions, memories, moods, goals, interests and much more.

VOXNET

A bunch of tools for developing screenless, audio-only user interfaces both in B2B in gaming.

NARRATREE

A library for generating consistent plots with twists, endings, episodes, scenes and full-scale knowledge transposition end-to-end.

CONTINUUM

A world-generation library that can support consistent world lore with hundreds of thousands of players and AI agents constantly adding to it.

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