NovelAI - Text Adventure

What is Text Adventure Mode?

Text Adventure Mode combines the working of traditional text-based role-playing games with advanced AI story telling capabilities. Unlike the story telling mode, where the narrative follows a linear path, this model provides the users to make choices that lead to branching story plot and directly influences the story line.

Text adventure mode allows users to walk through interactive narrative with choices that influence the story line.

Interaction with NovelAI in Text Adventure Mode

Crafting your Adventure

One needs to login on NovelAI to enter Text Adventure mode. Once after signing in, you will be directed to the interface where you have to choose the "New Story" option.

After choosing to create a new story, you will be given an option to choose between Storyteller mode and Text Adventure mode.

Selecting an Existing Prompt

At the bottom right of the screen, click on "View All Scenarios" to open the scenario viewer. Find a promt tagged with "text Adventure" and clock on it. You also search using the search bar.

Text Adventure contains all the modules to choose like AI Model, AI modules, Config Preset many more just like the options discussed in the Story telling chapter.

Two Input Modes

Text adventure mode takes inut differently from the user than the normal storyteller editor. The input is taken in the form of commands, which get formatted automatically to fit in its style. There are two different formatting modes in Text adventure, one for actions and the other for dialogue.

• Do − This input method lets the user state what they intended for their character to do.
• Say − This input method modifies your input depending on the punctuation mark.

Text Adventure Mode Vs Storyteller Mode

Well, NovelAI offers two distinct mode for crafting narratives, Text Adventure Mode and SToryteller Mode. Each mode has a unique approach for storytelling, with different preferences and styles of interaction. While Text Adventure Mode provides users into a dynamic experience of choice-driving of early role-playing games, Storyteller mode takes the for of a more traditional narrative flow where the AI drives the story.

Text Adventure combines the elements of interactive storytelling and role-playing games. Users explore a narrative via a command system that can influence the story line. Whereas Storyteller Mode focuses on a linear storytelling experience, which is guided by the AI and driven in a non-linear sequence of event based on the users prompts or ideas. The basic difference between the two modes in NovelAI is provided the table below −