HD remaster from game memory
A modern renderer draws a 1988 brawler from the running game's own memory, with every sprite redrawn in high resolution. Left of each pair: the original.
In development
Game characters you can talk to in your own words.
We build the system behind them. The game's story engine decides what each moment needs, a language model writes the line for what you just typed, and a cloned voice performs it. The story stays the one the designer wrote.
A session, as it happened
Two minutes from a test run of our build of Façade, the 2005 interactive drama about a marriage coming apart over one evening. The player's lines were typed by our test bot. Everything Trip and Grace say was written and voiced live in reply.
Bracketed words are the acting cues the writer gave the voice. The short "uh…" lines are the original actors' recordings, played instantly while the real answer is written.
- Playergrace, you seem upset
- GraceUhh…
- Trip[nervous] No, no, hey, our friend just got here! Let's just… let the machine pick that up, okay? [forced cheer] We're having a night!
- Grace[surprised] Oh, no, I'm fine, really— [clear throat] excuse me, I should get the phone.
- Trip[confident] Ah, yeah, it really is something, isn't it, Alex? Twenty-three floors up, man [chuckling] I swear I never get tired of looking out over the city.
- Grace[disdainful] [clear throat] Right, well… I really need to call maintenance to clean these filthy windows.
- Playertrip, why are you so nervous?
- Graceuh…
- Grace[sarcastic, chuckling] Oh, nervous? [break] Trip isn't nervous, Alex, he's just maintaining his signature high-strung host energy. Aren't you, sweetie?
- Playerare you two okay?
- Grace[anxious] What? No, of course we're fine, Alex, everything is [clear throat] completely fine. Why wouldn't we be?
What runs underneath
- Story
- The game's original drama manager and character behaviours choose each beat and what the next line has to do. We don't replace them.
- Words
- A language model writes the line from that purpose, the evening so far and what the player just typed, with an acting cue that matches the face the story engine gave the character.
- Voice
- Cloned voices of the original actors, streamed: a line starts playing about 0.75 seconds into voicing.
- Timing
- While one line plays, we read the story engine's own behaviour tree to see what each character is about to say, and write and voice it ahead.
| 1.87 s | median from the story asking for a line to the line playing (3.9 s before this work) |
|---|---|
| 41% | of next lines named exactly by the behaviour-tree lookahead |
| 0 of 51 | acting cues spoken aloud by mistake, checked with speech recognition |
| $0.0006 | writing cost per line |
The same idea in a courtroom
You defend the accused by questioning witnesses in your own words. The crime, the exhibits and what each witness actually knows are fixed in code. What they say, what they admit, how the prosecution answers and the verdict are up to the model, and a second model checks every turn for continuity before it enters the record.
This is the end of a 113-turn test trial. The defense presses the judge to separate a missing alibi from actual proof, and the judge does.
A prototype built in an Ace Attorney-style fan engine. Speakers are shown by role and character names are replaced in brackets. An original case and cast are next.
- DefenseYour Honor, can we agree [the witness] cannot identify [my client]? What evidence actually places him there at 9:50? Please rule on the identification and distinguish missing alibi information from positive proof.
- JudgeThe court agrees with the defense. The record clearly establishes that [the witness] cannot visually identify the silhouette she saw as the defendant.
- JudgeA lack of an alibi does not substitute for affirmative proof. The prosecution's remaining link is the undated railing print alongside the 8:30 PM delivery.
- DefenseYields the floor.
- ProsecutorIf the defense refuses to speak, the State will summarize plainly: an undated print puts him at the scene, and he offers nothing but silence and excuses.
- JudgeThe State has failed to prove the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and I hereby find the accused, [name], not guilty.
For indie studios
If your game already has a story system, we can give its characters a live voice. Your beats, your facts and your rules stay in charge; the characters answer whatever the player types.
What we connect to
Your dialogue or quest logic, your characters' knowledge and your game state. We've done it with a 2005 Java behaviour engine, so most systems are fair game.
What you get
Lines written for each moment, voices that act, free-text input turned into your game's own intents, and a replay lab that re-runs recorded sessions so every change is measured on the same story.
Lab
Other things we're building.
Games R&D
Texture remastering
Rebuilds an old online world's textures at four times the resolution, switchable in game with one key.
Paused
Surf
Source-engine surf movement and brush collision, rebuilt in Roblox.
In development
Web dev
Manga creator
AI-made comics with consistent characters.
Web app
AI video series creator
Episodic video with recurring characters.
Web app
Contact
Demos, collaborations, or a game that needs characters people can talk to.