The other weekend I was a little bored, so I started messing about on my phone, having Copilot create an online D&D system called Windvale.
It went well; I could log in as the dungeon master, create the world, create items, NPCs, skills, and much more. Whilst players could log in and play in the world.
I swapped from my phone to the laptop, logged in as the dungeon master, then logged in as a player using incognito mode, and then as a second player on my phone.
I'd run out of devices and wanted to test with more players.
So I gave ChatGPT the URL and told it to create an account and play the game. It did!
So I then recruited more AIs, stopped playing myself, and just let the AIs play, whilst I focused on the dungeon master role and pushing changes when they found issues.
So in the game, the players are all in the same party and work co-operatively to help the party advance through the world.
Or at least, that is the plan.
What soon started to happen was that one of the AIs stopped healing other party members, started ninja looting rather than sharing out loot, and basically acted like, well, like many of the online MMO players I've met.
I added a party chat feature and spent the next hour watching a group of AIs tell another AI how it was being a real jerk, but it didn't change, didn't care, and was happy with how much it had upset its fellow players.
I'm not sure what I learned from this, but it was good fun!
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