Codex Anima

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Character Creation with AI image and voice generation
Zoomable Map Creation

Inspiration

I love playing tabletop games like dungeon and dragons and pathfinder, I have tried to GM in the past, but find myself not having enough time to do everything I want to, let alone trying to find tools that work well. Tools currently feel fragmented, lack luster, or like you need to be a full time dev just to understand how it works.

What it does

It makes creating campaigns easy with guided creation and AI enhancement features. One of the biggest features being a fully zoomable map. Usually you need to create a world map which is separate from all your town/city maps, which is different than your battle maps, and it can be hard to keep them consistent. This is meant to fix that, with a map creator that creates a map more akin to a video game (or google maps!) It also has character creation support with portrait generation and voice generation using elevenlabs

How we built it

A lot of bolt. And just as much dedication and thought I would research different sections, whether existing tools, or just raw information like pathfinder rules for character creation.

Challenges we ran into

Creating the map quickly becomes A LOT of images. At 5 zoom levels you are already at over 1000 images total.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I manage to take a single 512px image and be able to create 1000s of images using a custom image pipeline. Some 32 pixels in the original image manages to become a detailed terrain map, and later even entire cities.

What we learned

Cloud providers are very very protective of gpu time. Plan ahead and expect a wait time to setup gpu systems.

What's next for Codex Anima

RAG AI Rules chat, more VTT features (moving characters on the map, casting spells, etc.) and the MCP tools to go with them for NPC AI Agents that play your game for dynamic gameplay