How we built AIventure, an AI-Powered Retro Dungeon (opens in new tab)

Grab a refreshing slice of cold watermelon (because it’s summer in Tokyo and I love it!), and let me tell you a story about how a small team of us turned a wild idea into a living, breathing web game. If you’ve spent any time in Google I/O over the last few years, you might remember Adventure—the virtual conference technology that powered major Google events during the pandemic. It was vast, beautifully illustrated, and collaborative. But it was also heavy, transient, and required an army of human moderators.