BotPlot

An NPC bot roaming a plot ⛰️🤖

📝 About

📝About

A virtual environment roleplaying game where a user-created NPC (non-playable character) roams about to achieve a given objective:

Similar to traditional video games-- but way more AI-heavy. User is in "copilot" mode.

LLMs have the power to behave as NPCs whch taken on states, personalities, character-like qualities, and most importantly-- develop heuristics to pursue (modeled by one or many heuristic functions often). I use gpt-3-turbo to explore these capabilties.

This is an open-source project I am building and adding to over time. Feedback and contributions are welcome, see Contributions .

Game Mechanics

Agent is the NPC exploring the world, currently a pixelated 2D plot of land
Impassable tiles: cannot be passed
Plantable (passable) tiles: a Plant layer with Plantable tiles and plants but not currently in use by Agent
Commands for Plantable tiles:
- Press S to plant 1u food
- Press D to harvest 1u food

`Agent` Details

gpt-3.5-turbo via OpenAI API
List of Actions it can perform (up, down, L, R)
Copilot style: AI Agent by default, but user interjections take precedent
Ability to evaluate Surroundings
Actions fluctuate based on Sleepiness values (which it self-assigns)

File Structure

Agent contains all Agent-related code
ui-admin contains all environemnt-related code
Used OpenAI API for (1) decision-making, (2) interacting with frontend (via wss)
Tiled is the map editor. See ui-admin/src/assets
Phaser and Grid Engine Plugin used for rendering environment

💻How to Build

Meant as a proof of concept and is a work in progress. Errors may occur.

Designed to run locally. Follow steps here to run:

Update the agent/env.json file with your OPENAI_API_KEY
I've only tested with `Node.js 16.19.0``
From the gptrpg folder, run npm install to install dependencies for everything
Run npm start in the main folder. This will start up the agent and front-end. The front-end will be at http://localhost:3000