Homebrewed
A downloadable game for Windows
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What is it?
Homebrewed is an experimental visual novel experience where everything is dynamically generated by an AI storyteller. You pick the scenario, you choose what to say, and the AI will do the rest. You can do anything.
"Want to go on a grand adventure on a pirate ship?"
Easy.
"Want to rob a McDonald's?"
Yeah you can do that.
"Want to be a little rat looking for some cheese in the big city?"
Definitely.
Features
- Limitless scenarios and characters powered by latest GPT and Stable Diffusion models.
- Dynamically generated environments, characters, and scenarios.
- Endless room for creative decision-making (seriously, go crazy)
- Classic visual novel aesthetics.
- Some royalty-free music that changes based on the vibe.
- Any of the visual novels could technically go on forever... probably.
- Seamless saving and loading different visual novels. (Only available in paid version)
Controls
- Space to fast forward and continue messages.
- ESC to pause
- Tab to force open you're own message box (especially if stuck, sometimes you can give the AI a bit of a shove)
- Refresh Location button to poke the AI to re-generate the location
Requirements
- You must have a working OpenAI API key and account. The storyteller AI uses the latest gpt4o model tokens, so make sure you have billing /credits setup with OpenAI. The API key can be pasted in the main menu. https://platform.openai.com/api-keys
https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/billing/overview
- 6-10 GB of space for stable diffusion setup - a google drive link and instructions will be provided with download. Or available here.
- Very little setup besides extracting a zip file.
- Requires a pretty solid GPU/CPU, still works with lesser ones but assets can take longer to load.
Disclaimer
This game is experimental! The dialogue and artwork are generated by AI. While I strive for high quality and coherence, the AI's responses and art may occasionally be unpredictable or unconventional. Things may go wrong. If you get stuck, don't be afraid to reset the game. Updates will most likely happen.
Caution: Some content generated by the AI may not always be suitable for all audiences. Player discretion is advised.
You should try the demo first before you buy!
It features the full experience (minus saving/loading features)
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Comments
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Major issue with not being able to pass stable diffusion? I mean I left it on for over 12 hours for nothing to happen... Everything is installed as instructed on a top end computer... Perhaps maybe create a discord for anyone with future requests..?
Oh no! I’m so sorry you had to let it run for 12 hours! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll definitely look into this as soon as I can. I’ve been debating creating a discord especially for troubleshooting so I might take your advice on that.
For now, try launching the “run.bat” file located in the downloaded requirements folder before running the game. This will manually launch stable diffusion. Also make sure the requirements folder is inside the same folder as the game’s .exe.
Even when i did run.bat before i launched the game it still just said launching stable diffusion... and was just stuck on that screen
So when it displays "Launching Stable Diffusion..." it's waiting for a connection to the local stable diffusion server so it's most likely an issue with the backend that I'm looking into now.
A discord server has just been created and I'd love to provide more help: https://discord.gg/PRcCdkxD