Mythologue - Prototype

MYTHOLOGUE

Mythologue is a game about retelling myths, in the style of a game of Telephone!

Take on the role of generations of storytellers and listeners, passing down myths from one generation to the next.

You will be expected to recite the tales you hear... but be careful, for any changes you make to the myth might slip through and forever change the story!

Of course, the storyteller will only let you get away with so many differences from the myth as they know it! 

Mythologue's first playable Prototype!

I'm releasing a prototype version for people to play with!

It currently has only one myth, and a short one at that - but its more about getting some feedback from users about how to make the game more enjoyable!

Development

Mythologue is being made for Mythology Jam#1, and its all about mythology - and how our own ways of telling stories are passed down through the generations.

New Skills

I've already learned a lot doing this project -

•  How to use python to connect the Godot engine to a python-library for natural language processing.
• Natural language processing, and how to use the NLTK and WordNet corpus to actually do some (fairly simple) word comparisons.
• Threading. Since the natural language processing takes some time, I had to learn about implementing threads to make a more enjoyable user experience. Now, instead of the game freezing entirely, nice animations can play while the computer considers your answer.

Future

I'm aiming to add at least a handful of ancient Egyptian myths for the completed version. Hopefully these will also include some other artistic bells and whistles like sound and animations.

If I were to expand on the idea of Mythologue, I'd probably look at building it entirely in Python - this would lower the time the user has to wait for comparisons of their sentence, as a good deal is taken up by the Godot Engine calling the python script.

Beyond that, I'd look a bit deeper into linking it with a pre-trained AI through API calls - though this would then require internet connection, I think it could really enhance the game with a much deeper ability to engage in semantic comparisons.