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Re:Show HN: Play the front page of Hacker News as interactiv... by themaximalist on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:56PM (#35644540)
Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game.

You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/<anything you want goes here>

You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses.

The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade

Re:Show HN: Play the front page of Hacker News as interactiv... by low_tech_love on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:20PM (#35645734)
I was impressed at first, for maybe 5 minutes, especially for the visual aesthetics, it looks really cool! But I admit that knowing that this is just a bunch of chatgpt prompts going back and forth doesn’t really make me want to play it. Then again I was never really a fan of procedurally-generated games in general. Good luck though!
Re:Show HN: Play the front page of Hacker News as interactiv... by christiangenco on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:59PM (#35646239)
This is amazing! I just played through a text adventure game that probably would've taken a skilled human a week to make, not including the artwork. Incredible!

I'm having trouble using my own URL with it. I'm trying to generate a text adventure from a blog post I wrote about air quality (christian.gen.co/air) but `https://infinityarcade.com/https://christian.gen.co/air` redirects to `https://infinityarcade.com/generate?prompt_text=https%3A%2F%...` and then infinitely hangs.

Re:Show HN: Play the front page of Hacker News as interactiv... by themaximalist on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:59PM (#35647672)
thanks! i think the content might be too long, i can look into adding a summarizer first which should help
Re:Show HN: Play the front page of Hacker News as interactiv... by jslakro on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:06PM (#35647102)
How about having at least an inventory to take/drop random objects. It will also be interesting to have more languages available
Re:Show HN: Play the front page of Hacker News as interactiv... by themaximalist on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:02PM (#35647703)
i've experimented with this a little and wrote about the tradeoffs here https://themaximalist.com/infinityarcade/

it's currently pretty difficult to get the models to output sane game state, it should be possible soon though

in the meantime i'm calling this YOLO CODE!