dalle-slayer

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  win

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  game over

Inspiration

Vampire slayer

What it does

Dalle-slayer is a vampire survivor clone with auto generated graphics from dalle.

The topics for generation are created from a chatgpt request.

How we built it

Call chat gpt to get genre and characters.

  {
    "genre": "fantasy",
    "randomSnesGame": "Secret of Mana",
    "heroType": "Mage",
    "enemyType": "Goblin",
    "allyType": "Knight",
    "enemyExplosionColor": "#FF0000",
    "collectableItemType": "Elixir",
    "collectItemHexColor": "#7F00FF"
  }

Creation of image sprites via dalle. Using masking to cut the size down significantly.

Challenges we ran into

Spent a long time trying to get sprite sheets. Wasn't able to...

Sending dalle a snes title helps align the sprits stylistically

Accomplishments that we're proud of

You can shoot stuff and it goes boom.

What we learned

Limitations of dalle. New minimal game engine.

What's next for dalle-slayer

Probably not much, just a fun PoC

interesting tidbits

• I pass an SNES title for style alignment. This was kind of a /hack/ to make sure the generated sprites artistically align.
• I ask for the genre in the json response to get some /precognition/ from language model so the characters it suggests fit within. I don't actually /use/ it.
• We use a mask in the request against dalle so we don't have to scale down the result. Dalle's minimum size is 256x256 but we want smaller.

Built With

• express.js
• javascript
• pixi.js
• python
• webpack