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My immediate reaction was, "oh, like Uxn!" but then of course I read it was originally a fork of Uxn. I love these 'toy' OSes, the more the better.

It isn't as obvious as it maybe should be, but in classic text-based adventure fashion you can also type your own 'actions' (in addition to the four default choices). We use LLMs to basically manage incorporating any player actions without letting them derail the story (too much).

There's also some caching involved which resets every 24 hours, so you will have a slightly different experience each time you play through (even if you choose the same character).

I also love the whole early 2000s ARG stuff I think it was a big part of the inspiration for the movie.

Same here. Built first web application in Django, have tried all the other frameworks over the years, and am now back to building another webapp in Django...

The entire plot of the movie is included. You could play through entire story, but in practice that would take a very long time, even with digressions -- and even then, it would be the story just through a specific character's perspective.

The idea was to make something that stood alongside the movie as a companion piece, an alternative way of experiencing it, rather than just a promotional thing. It's been fun seeing players playing for 4+ hours and barely getting through the first half, when the movie itself is 90 minutes and change.

I may try to post a Show HN later this week with more details, since the technical details are kind of fun. It's fully custom-coded and uses some LLMs under the hood (more as a 'game master' than in a creative capacity). I worked with the writer/director of the film to translate the script to a more interactive-friendly format, but he basically did the interactive adaptation himself.

I worked on the movie as a technical consultant and they credited me as 'unix wrangler' (I can check having an imdb page off my bucket list I guess)...

Easter eggs if anyone finds this and reads this far: try typing 'chloe' or 'camus' in the character selection screen.

Late to finding out about the HN mention, but I made this! And yes, it's an adaptation of the entire movie, but with the twist of making every character the 'main' character.

There's a text-based adventure in the movie that the characters play briefly, so this riffs on that. Happy to answer any questions.