Dream Team

In the far-off space year 2024, everybody has Naivigators on their phones: Smart AI assistants that make everyday life easier. 

Poor Joe saved up for months to afford his own Naivigator, but Vreena was not what he expected: She's lazy, incompetent, spends all day on the couch watching TV and is kind of an AI supremacist. But she's cute, so it's ok (her words).

When Vreena decides on a whim that she wants to learn more about what it means to be human, it's the beginning of the greatest detective adventure you have seen since opening this itch page.

Controls (Controller):

• A - Advance text, talk when available, confirm
• B - Run, back
• X - Talk to Vreena (not in web and not when disabled)
• Y - Look around the scene
• D-Pad - Move cursor around look mode
• Start - Hold to skip dialog / Start game on title screen / Confirm Vreena Question

Controls (Keyboard):

• A - Advance text, talk when available, confirm
• S - Run, back
• Q - Talk to Vreena (not in web and not when disabled)
• W - Look around the scene
• Arrow keys - Move cursor around look mode
• Enter - Hold to skip dialog / Start game on title screen / Confirm Vreena Question
• Keyboard Input - Ask Vreena question on question screen
  
• Full screen - CTRL + Enter for Windows / F8 for Web (make sure to click game in firefox first or fullscreen will fail)
  

Demo 2! Same crime, but with actual questions and some more places this time. Also the free talking to Vreena gimmick works under web too now, so that's cool.

Despite the theme, there's only a small AI gimmick in here: You can ask Vreena questions during the investigation and she replies to them in character (maybe). I liked how you could always ask Mega Man for help in the Battle Network series, so the idea kinda came from that. Querying the OpenAI api requires calls to the API, and I'm not too hot on just randomly connecting to the internet from my random game, so you can opt out of it during the beginning.  I'm working on making it work offline right now, that will probably be finished for Demo 3.

The dialog was written by me (as you might be able to tell) and none of the art was AI generated either. I tried my hand at AI voices for the intro, but as you might be able to tell, every once in a while the emotions are off, so I think they are more placeholders than anything. Fun to play around with though.

Thanks a lot for trying it out! Please let me know what you think!

Original release date Demo 2: 05/05/2023