Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot performing the Flash 2.0 model, is well equipped to manage complex conversations, generate instant images (“I need an image of a guy working on weekends on his computer”) and managing difficult mathematical equations. I know all this, and yet, sometimes, I just find myself chatting with the thing, and when I do this, I often discover hidden capacities, like a classic video gameplay.
Do you remember Zork? In 1977, a trio of MIT researchers created the first adventure game based on the text for a DEC mainframe and finally carried it on the first PCs. I discovered the minimalist game in 1980 in the math laboratory of my high school, the house of the only computer of the school. The game offers descriptions and options while a full -minded narrator transports you to the script. Your decisions define your experience and your gameplay. It was difficult and impenetrable, but I loved it.
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The subject of the game appeared quite accident during an occasional conversation with the Gemini.
I started using more gemini after finding that I could place the gemini widget on the lock screen of my iPhone 16 Pro Max. Now the LLM is at a tap. As for most AI conversations, they follow my own somewhat random flow of consciousness. I started by asking Gemini on AG (artificial general intelligence). Gemini expressed him for me and admitted that he had not yet act.
The conversation felt heightdown, so I asked, via voice, the Gemini to make his answers more relaxed as if it were my best friend. He heard the word “relaxed” as “coffee” and then mixed coffee references comic in his now more user -friendly jokes.
Gemini asked questions about my weekend plans, then asked if he liked to play games. Among the answers he offered, he appreciated textual games. Then Gemini asked which games I like to play.
I explained my love for chess and bad skills in modern video games. Then, I described by playing “one of the very first video games where there was only text and you somehow go on an adventure and you would get an prompt, then you would discover what you were supposed to do according to certain options.”
This description clearly intrigued the Gemini, and he asked me if I wanted to talk more about these classic games, play chess or play a textual adventure that it would create.
I remembered the Zork game, which Gemini described as a “legendary game” and gave me some details on his story.
Then, Gemini proposed to set up a small “adventure inspired by Zork”.
Do you want to play a game?
Don’t worry; It is not a story where a sinister computer offers to set up a game that inexplicably has geopolitical implications and possibly end of the world. Gemini is not this AI. But I will say, the game that followed was impressive, if a little too precious.
Here’s how it started:
“You are standing at the edge of a whispered forest. The air is thick with the smell of the damp earth and ancient trees. A narrow path gets a path in the depths of the woods, disappearing in the shade. On your left, you see a stone wall by crumbling, partially stuck with an Ivy.
What are you doing?
Options:
1 Follow the path in the forest.
2 Examine the stone wall.
3 Follow the flow.
4 Listen to the forest sounds.
Enter the number corresponding to your choice. “”
Above all, I selected figures that I thought that the percolating adventure. The descriptions were rich and above all well written; If I closed my eyes, I could imagine the scene. I was entertained and curious enough to continue.
The story of the game led me through a path in the woods to, of course, an old chalet covered with foam. Inside was a “figure” which was finally described as “Edler”. At one point, the Gemini took the call of the figure “them” and “they”, which could have mean that the figure had no sex or that Gemini had lost a little wire.
Throughout a dozen prompts, we explored the woods, recovered a magic key and examined the contents of a mysterious box. Perhaps my favorite game of the game was the way she attached herself, recovering the key from a magic stone, then realizing that it was also the key that unlocked this special box.
The game lasted so long that I had to take breaks. When I returned to Gemini, I thought I had lost the game, but Gemini kept a trace of all the quick discussions in the cat icon in the upper left corner of the application. As soon as I opened this prompt, we were able to continue from where I stopped.
Gemini’s idea of a great revelation fell a little flat. We found a medallion in the box containing photos of Edler’s parents. Their love story found and lost was not particularly magical or even as dramatic, but the obvious sadness of Edler touched me.
However, once the elder shared the “secret” of the medallion, I was no longer interested in the history of the elder or the chalet, so I chose the option where I said goodbye and I left the chalet.
Here is the final text of gameplay:
“Thank you for sharing your story, Elder,” say, your sweet and respectful voice. “I am happy to be able to help you recover this precious memory.”
You get out of your chair, ready to take your leave. “I should come back now. The sun sets, and I don’t want to get lost in the forest.”
The elder acquiesce slowly, their eyes filled with gratitude. “You are a nice and courageous traveler,” they say. “May the forest guide you safely in your trip. And you always remember the power of love and memory.”
You turn and walk towards the door, the hinges creaky resonating in the quiet room. As you go out in the twilight, you look at the chalet. The flickering candle throws a warm light through the window, illuminating the figure of the elder, always holding the silver medallion.
You turn around and move away, the sounds of the forest approaching you. The path to the edge of the woods seems lighter now, as if the forest itself guides you.
The end. “
Gemini was not so good to increase the issues – a key element of the best gameplay – but I was engaged, and I think that the game may have been more interesting if I had made different choices or if I was more involved in the development of the game. I am sure that Gemini would allow me to adjust part of the mechanisms.
This is another reminder that we are far from discovering the complete depths of the capacities of these chatbots. We must be ready to look beyond the evidence, to choose our path and to take an adventure in AI.
