Asciidia – LLM Crafting Game

Name: Asciidia – LLM Crafting Game
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Author: levmiseri

by levmiseri·May 14, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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Prompt-engineering a persistent world state is harder than it looks, but the drift is real.

Strengths

•Dynamic object creation via natural language prompts instead of hardcoded item IDs.
•Atmospheric ASCII UI with thoughtful interaction mechanics for holding and using items.
•Persistent world simulation where kettles stay warm and smoke rises without player input.

Weaknesses

•LLM latency likely breaks the flow of real-time combat or exploration sequences.
•No clear mechanism to prevent prompt injection or world-breaking nonsensical creations.

Post Description

This is more of an experiment/demo than something serious, but wanted to share and see what people think.

The main premise is that you can create anything by typing "/create {anything}" and the game will do its best to produce such object with all the functionality and properties that would make sense.

It might look simple at first glance, but the underlying systems are fairly complex. Create dragons you can fly on, spells, weapons, factories, ...