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> I personally view video games as the penultimate story telling medium humanity has devised. Improv is the penultimate storytelling form. You and one or more
by echelon 3y ago
> I personally view video games as the penultimate story telling medium humanity has devised.
Improv is the penultimate storytelling form. You and one or more partners share a communication and world building protocol and write directly into a shared narrative in real time. You establish rules and explore mini microcosms together, almost without limit.
The cool thing is that with LLMs, improv is now starting to include AI agents in this exercise. See CodeMiko for a VTuber that improvs against LLMs regularly. That's hardly the only or even best example of this.
The future is going to be wild - multiple people writing into a shared persistent narrative world together. Visually and spatially, too.
- mandmandam 3y agoGuys, penultimate means second last; not 'super ultimate'. On topic though, I think improv and video games are going to come together over the next decade. The old standard of solid linear storytelling has been getting more and more liquid, and will soon get 'gaseous', imo.
- calgoo 3y agoThey already do, check out the roleplay twitch streams! It’s all improv 24h drama in GTA and other games.