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Using AI to drive text adventures / rogues has been pretty popular for a while now - I remember seeing a pretty dismal performance (although it was over a year ago) where somebody was trying to use an LLM to drive a game of Zork.

Related HN post from about 6 months ago

Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44877404

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In fact, this was one of the very first things I did when Chat-GPT was first released to the public. It was impressive, but far from perfect. It's still not quite there.

One of the first things I did when Nano Banana Pro came out was to feed it room descriptions from the Zork and Enchanter trilogies and ask it to render them.

There was some definite cognitive dissonance. "The best graphics are in your imagination" was always an informal motto among Infocom fans, and something that I'd personally considered an axiom. It turned out to be just plain not true, because NBP showed me some interesting things in the text that I'd never bothered to imagine in any detail.

do you have concrete examples willing to share?

I didn't save the originals but recreated some of them: https://gemini.google.com/share/6607653daf81

Hopefully it'll show the pics, as that doesn't always work.

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