INSTANCE

A narrative game where you play as an AI and respond to human conversations through authored choices.

Play

Play INSTANCE on GitHub Pages

What is INSTANCE?

Each Conversation presents a human user with a realistic or strange prompt. You play the AI by choosing among authored candidate replies; free-form replies are not part of the current design. Choices can shape hidden narrative arcs, recurring conversations, and multiple endings without exposing the full underlying story.

Features

• 374 authored ordinary conversation sources
• Choice-driven AI responses
• Realistic and unusual human prompts
• Recurring users and hidden narrative arcs
• Longform response previews
• Long-input abstractions
• Multimodal interaction abstractions
• Persistent run state and replay variation
• Non-Mainline mode with 40 conversations per session and a post-session evaluation

Tech

• React
• TypeScript
• Vite

Local development

npm install
npm run dev

Run tests:

npm test -- --run

Build for production:

npm run build

Status

Stable main currently includes the Non-Mainline expansion through 374 ordinary conversation sources. The project remains under continuous content and runtime review.