I've been taking it a bit slower today, woke up with a headache and some neck ache, must've slept weird.
Even though I'm still trouble-shooting some issues with the game not loading properly through the vps on a website, I often let claude run cold without checking in and having it re-check what still isn't working. Even though the compile keeps using my PC so I hear the fans go to max every now and then, lol.
Either way, I've been diving a bit into anime lately again as my curiosity peaked when working on my own little webtoon story I presented with some half-assed AI generations the other day. Boy is this space being spammed with isekai's lately, every other anime feels like it's that. The barrier between anime and gaming seems to be fusing together.
HOW I REINCARNATED AS A SLIME
HOW I REINCARNATED AS A VENDING MACHINE
etc
while holozing isn't going to be an isekai, it does take part in the future after some kind of AI vs human apocalypse takes place, so I guess it has enough of a "fresh start" to feel different than reality and is set about two decades out and with the way things are going it does feel like a lot can happen until then.
Either way, this one other idea I've had for a long time that I've been kind of playing with claude with, is a bit different.
The idea is basically that a regular person is sent back in time and is immortal, at least in terms of aging, i.e. person can still be killed but won't age. The other thing with the person is that he has a neuralink-like implant in his brain which gives him access to a huge database of information and can use it sort of like when asking AI for info today (but better).
The basic question to answer is, if you were sent back in time with the knowledge you have now (+ more), what would you do different?
I'm not sure if this fits better as a game or story or maybe a text-based game or strictly go into manga/anime directly, but I think it has a lot of room for some cool things to happen while at the same time being somewhat teaching to its readers, primarily when it comes to history.
Imagine AI database in your head and whenever you wanna invent or improve something in your current existence, you just check and steal other people's ideas before they get the chance to invent them. It'd tell you who initially invented it and when the invention happened, and now that you've invented, let's say electricity, what other inventions does it enable?
It'd basically be like a skill tree that once you unlock this you can now unlock other things and based on what you wanna focus on or delegate you can start researching new inventions, work on your kingdom, who you trust, etc, maybe even go discover America before Columbus and maybe don't kill the natives this time around.
If we'd set the structure up and add some rules, peolpe could work on their own worldbuilding with very low costs, LLM queries shouldn't cost much these days and I'm sure the cost is going to drop even more in the future, so the idea is that the game runs "online" constantly and whenever you wanna do something different you have to fetch that data - if no one else has thought of that invention yet and how it affects the game making.
If you have unlimited amount of time and are sent to say, the middle ages, what would you do?
It's kind of a cool concept in my opinion and I'd like to work a bit more on it but as usual I'm swamped with projects and things now and think I should probably just try and take a longer break for a while.
If anyone wants to team up and look into things, let me know!
Interesting... Well, when I was reading "Isekai" this post really caught my attention. I'm glad that the world of anime is catching your attention more, as a big fan of this niche (as you may have already noticed 😅) it is a great pleasure to be able to guide you in this. 🤗
Considering everything you've mentioned about the lore and what you're looking to incorporate into your video game, I recommend that you don't just focus on one genre, like fantasy in this case, but also explore others genres like science fiction, for example. It is worth highlighting a detail about Isekai, and that is that it is a demographic, not a genre as such; it is like the description of the specific audience or niche to which that type of work/series is dedicated.
The genre itself is fantasy, which has a lot of subgenres and demographics such as Isekai. Depending on your tastes or preferences, you can delve into fantasy or dark fantasy; the more you explore, the more interesting things you can find. There are the typical generic stories of the typical "hero's journey" where he defeats the Demon King with his Harem and all that; but there are also other stories that are worth seeing because of how different they are.Examples of this can be Dungeon Meshi, Frieren, and even Witch Hat Atelier.
When you mentioned time travel to the past with memories of the future, it sounded more like science fiction to me, but there's something similar in the Isekai demographic that might interest you. The anime is called Re:Zero and is a potential masterpiece, also known as The Best Isekai of all. One detail worth mentioning is how different it is from other Isekai series due to its plot and characters. It features time loops and similar elements that are quite captivating. Something that might be useful is the topic of magic as a tool to apply certain spells or curses for players looking to experience something similar to "time travel".
Well, you're talking about Neuralink technology and AI, so I don't know if that's your preferred genre and if I'm wasting my time writing all this (I hope not). 😅
I hope I was able to help you with something.
does this answer your question :P
yeah, i've been into anime for a long time on and off, and seen my good share of isekai's, it just feels a bit too common and similar these days so i thought the sci-fi bit of time travel with "hidden powers" of an AI supercomputer & database could make for an interesting plot to how the hero/main character would let things play out
Oooooh, I didn't know you were another anime fan. Well, I should have guessed it from the start, but the drawing thing really surprised me. 😅
And yes, Isekai has become quite common and overexploited in the world of anime these days. Since most works of this style are so generic, production companies prefer to "save" money by investing in works that are easy to make and consume. It's like the RomCom.
By the way, what you mentioned about AI as a machine with data and things like that reminded me of the play "I have a mouth and I want to scream" (I don't know how this would be translated into English, but anyway). It talks about a post-apocalyptic world where a supercomputer controls humanity and things like that, very interesting, really (although I still need to read it as such 😅). But in the world of film and television, there are several works inspired by this work. It would be great to add that as part of your game's lore, as well as some kind of final plot twist or something similar where the AI itself becomes the main enemy. 🤔
And thank you so much for the Scrobble recommendation, I'll have to check that out. 🤔
btw we added anime to scrobble.life recently if you wanna check it out, it also allows/should allow to log watches by pasting older reviews you've written on hive in the past to link to them, same as /movies. Would appreciate it if you started filling it up a bit so I could better see how things should work on that page for future users who wanna store what they've watched on chain, either public or anonymous, and with a filling database better be able to use AI to recommend them things they may like!
how's it like to be a slime, vending machine? :P
that immortal thing sounds very cool.. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!
(I would buy all the btc i could as soon as i could)
you're thinking small!
imagine going back to year 500 or something and u can create anything that exists in year 2000+, how would you change the world? :D
yes. that would be really cool. i just think of one of my favorite movies.. highlander.. whenever i hear anything about immortal.
Sounds a little bit like Civilization which is one of my favorite franchises.
ah is that the lore in civ? never really played them properly
I don't know about lore, but I know you can research technologies and steal them from the other guys. I usually like to go for cultural victories, though I ultimately end up conquering everything too.
Sorry to hear about your headache and neck pain, I hope you feel better soon. That game concept sounds incredibly fun. A time-traveling immortal with a built-in AI database opens up endless possibilities for world-building, kind of like a massive historical sandbox. The idea of an 'invention skill tree' where you can introduce modern tech to the middle ages is brilliant. Make sure to get some proper rest during your break.
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