I tried out Infinite Worlds (a review)

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I was intrigued by Airum’s posts about AR stories in the Infinite Worlds site so I tried it out last week and I wanted to share what I have learned. It is basically a hybrid of a text game and a choose your own adventure. The system suggests 3 actions you can take and you can use them as-is, edit a choice they give you or type up your own choice from scratch including things you want to have happen in the next section.

First, I did the Maternal Confusion story where a young mother and her husband bring in a wet nurse. I discovered that you can put it into storyteller mode and that it behaves differently than the default game mode. You can also edit the parameters of the story. I edited it and changed the psychological regression to a physical regression and it changed the story path to a physical AR story. You can also back up in the story and change an action to be on a new or different path or start over and do things very differently. 

The system works on a points/cost approach where you get a certain number of points to use for free and a certain number of free points every day. Every action you input consumes however many points it requires for the AI to generate the new content and it varies based on how long and complex the action is. If you run out of points you have to wait for more free points the next day or you have to purchase points.

I created a story called The Regression Dance. I made the scenario and the system created the title. You can edit the title but I decided to just leave it. It is about a married 35 year old business executive who takes youth pills so she can fill the empty slot in her niece’s dance team. Without another dancer they don’t qualify for the summer competitions. Her husband is going to be traveling for a lot of the summer and she is on a break from work after a successful project so she has the time. She has to live under her sister Carrie’s supervision once she gets to young so there are relationship adjustments and conflicts. How she relates to her husband obviously changes during the early part of the story and when he visits at different times over the summer. I went a long way into the story and then tweaked it and started again. Since you manage the story yourself then you control the pace and focus of the changes. I can see where even the same starting scenario can have almost infinite variations. 

I don’t have any relationship or connection with Infinite Worlds (other than as a customer). In the interest of full disclosure,I do get credit for people playing my scenario but I wouldn’t post anything about it here if I didn’t think that a lot of you might enjoy Infinite Worlds. 

You can access The Regression Dance here: 

https://infiniteworlds.app/#YNk3fw

You can edit the scenario you are playing at any point and there are links to see secret info about what the system is doing in each piece of content generated by an action. You can edit it and change the approach or focus and it will affect the results of the next turn. 

I would recommend playing some free rounds and when you have a feel for it, look at the Edit details and then maybe come up with your own scenario. You can have a private scenario or share it as a community world. I did that with The Regression Dance.

You can export the story you generate as a pdf ro text file so you would use it as the basis for a story. The second person approach means you would probably want to edit it to a more traditional third person narrative but that probably takes a lot less effort than writing it all from scratch. 

Anyways, I do recommend that you try it if you are interested at all and share what you learn or generate with all of us here,

Heidegger