AI Adventure

AI Adventure is a serverless interactive storytelling app inspired by AI Dungeon, built using Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash API. I made it as an experiment to try using AI in a web app, and to explore more interactive uses beyond just chatbots. Since it's a prototype, there's no backend, user accounts, or save/load system.

The app lets users jump into one of four premade adventures or create their own from scratch by writing a title, introduction, and story essentials, which are custom details that guide the AI's tone and behavior throughout the adventure.

Features

• Create Your Own Adventure

  Input a custom title, intro, and "story essentials" (tone, key themes, instructions for the AI) to generate a unique story.

• Interactive Story Flow

  While playing, users can take a turn with "Do", "Say", or "Story", or let the AI continue the adventure. They can also retry or erase the last segment. This keeps the experience dynamic and interactive.

• Adjustable Settings

  Modify text display speed, response temperature, and even edit the story essentials during the session.

What I learned

This project allowed me to integrate a generative AI API into a real-time, interactive web app. I worked with prompt engineering, created structured output schemas, and built a dynamic UI that responds to the AI's results. It also helped me learn about the challenges of long-context interactions and how to improve them going forward.

Future Plans

If I continued working on this, I would:

• Add a summary system to reduce token usage and improve performance.
• Create a save/resume system so players can return to ongoing adventures.
• Implement user accounts and a database to support saving and sharing adventures.

Technologies