About AI Adventure

What is AI Adventure?

Traditional interactive fiction follows a script. AI Adventure takes a different approach.

Each adventure describes a world, its rules, important truths, characters and goals, while the AI creates a unique playthrough based on the player's choices.

The result is an adventure that remains recognisable between playthroughs, while allowing different conversations, discoveries, puzzles and solutions to emerge naturally.

Open Framework

AI Adventure is designed to work across many capable AI systems rather than being tied to a single AI provider or platform.

The AI Adventure Guide, Adventure Format and example adventures are all released under the Creative Commons CC0 licence, encouraging anyone to create, modify, share and build upon compatible adventures.

See the Documentation section for the Guide, format specification and other project information.

Philosophy

AI Adventure separates the adventure from the AI that runs it.

Rather than scripting every possible action, adventures describe worlds, rules, characters, discoveries and immutable truths. This allows different AI systems to interpret the same adventure in their own way while remaining faithful to the author's intent.

Where it began

AI Adventure grew from an idea sparked by Bruce Simpson's July 2026 Aardvark Daily article,“A new era of computer gaming?”.

Bruce experimented with using an LLM to continue an old-style text adventure, which prompted a simple question: what happens if the adventure is separated from the AI running it?

That question led to some experimenting, then rather more experimenting, and eventually to AI Adventure: an open framework where adventures can be played using the AI of your choice.

Current Version

Support the Project

AI Adventure will always remain free to use.

If you've enjoyed playing or building adventures, you're welcome to shout AI Adventure a tea.

Every contribution helps support the continued development of the framework, documentation, website and adventures while keeping AI Adventure free and open for everyone.