Homebrewed (Demo)
A downloadable game for Windows
The Demo is currently the same experience as the full game except for saving/loading.
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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 full 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.
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Author | British Otter |
Genre | Visual Novel, Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Role Playing |
Tags | 2D, AI Generated, Fantasy, Story Rich, Text based, Unity |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Inputs | Keyboard |
Accessibility | Subtitles |
Download
Install instructions
- Download the game's .zip.
- Extract the downloaded game folder to wherever you'd like,
- Download the requirements .zip here (Google Drive link 5.9GB)
- Extract the .zip so the Requirements folder is inside of the root folder (where the .exe is)
- Launch Homebrewed.exe
- If everything works, you'll eventually arrive at the main menu
Note: First launch might take a bit longer to load everything
Development log
- Homebrewed Demo Now AvailableJun 05, 2024
Comments
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Nice project, I hope it goes far, this is a great idea.
Tried it and the stable diffusion can't seem to run on my machine cause of the Torch cuda test. Seems the normal fixes don't seem to work on this instance