Drift Bounty Blues
A downloadable game for Windows
What is Drift Bounty Blues?
Somewhere between a chatbot and a game, share a 3D, digital world with companions whom you can build stronger social bonds and explore the solar system with. As the Drift Commander of the U.E.F. Moon Glaive, you can catch bounties throughout the solar system as a means of obtaining credits to improve the ship or your companions. Between missions, chat with your companion and hangout on your ship- exploring various activities and mini-games to pass the time. Who knows? Maybe you can even talk your way into a more intimate relationship with your digital XO?
Features Implemented So Far:
- AI / LLM Integration Features
- API support for various enterprise models
- GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI)
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic)
API support for ANY private/local model supported by:
- LM Studio (Uncensored models available. This is fast, private & offline)
- Text To Speech API Support for:
- OpenAI
- Offline (private) text-to-speech
- Elevenlabs
- Dynamic Affection System
- Chat messages are scored by the AI and can potentially alter affection levels, positively or negatively. (OpenAI messages are scored, other APIs currently get a +1 rapport per message).
- Positive / Negative scores based off each individual chatbot's personality, likes and dislikes.
- Save and Load Chat History
- Keep the conversation going between sessions. Save and Resume your game to continue your chat and journey.
- API support for various enterprise models
- Gameplay Features
- VR Support (chat in VR is currently WIP)
- 5 optional companions to choose from (3 female, 2 male).
- NSFW (18+) Features (NOT available in the Censored build)
- Multiple nude skins available in clothing options for the various companions.
- Toggle nsfw animations for companions with high enough rapport levels.
How to use this Chatbot
Starting a New World from the main menu currently requires using either an API key from a frontier model company(which should be saved on your PC as a system variable), or a secondary program like LM Studio to host a LLM on any PC located on the same local area network (LAN), or if your PC is powerful enough to run a model and the game simultaneously, entirely local.
OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini)
Using GPT - How to create an API key and load account with funds.
To add your API key to your computer, where Project Tango can find it and use it for in-game API calls to GPT, add the variable to the system properties as follows:
- Right-click on 'This PC' or 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'.
- Click on 'Advanced system settings'.
- Click the 'Environment Variables' button.
- In the 'System variables' section, click 'New...' and enter OPENAI_API_KEY as the variable name and your API key as the variable value.
- Restart your PC.
Anthropic (Claude 3.5 Sonnet)
Using Claude - How to create an API key
Add your Anthropic API Key to your computer, where Project Tango can find it and use it for in-game API calls to Claude, add the variable to the system properties in the same way as the OpenAI API Key listed above.
Ensure the variable name is listed exactly as:ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
LM Studio (Uncensored models, Open Source models and more)
LM Studio allows the user to host their own LLM on a local machine (any secondary PC on the local network will do).
- Download desired model from search list.
- Click "Local Server" button, located at the bottom of the left frame.
- Start a local server using the downloaded model.
- Discover your machines IP address and use this when selecting LM Studio as your LLM of choice in the Project Tango options menu. (If you're using a powerful PC, you can alternatively use "localhost" instead of an IP address when running LM Studio on the same PC as Project Tango. The game will check the localhost machine and establish a connection without the need for a secondary computer. Using powerful but small, open source models with a smaller memory footprint will make this option increasingly possible.)
In-Game Controls
W, A, S, D - Player Movement
Space - Jump
Escape, P - Pause Menu
Mouse - Look Around
TAB - Open Chat Input Box
Enter (after opening chat input window) - Send Chat Input Text to desired LLM
E - Inspect (opens companion ui when inspecting companion)
Credits
Music:
"My Moon and Your Sun" - Hampus Naeselius
"The Flux Beneath It All" - ELFL
"Stay In Orbit" - Victor Lundberg
"Travel To Centaurus" - Nihoni
"Stumbling in the Dark" - Yonder Dale
"Final Transmission Home" - Amaranth Cove
Support for me / Support for you
To support me or get access to the Robot Punch API within the game, subscribe on Patreon! I'm also on Discord, so if you're a Patreon member, you can see development updates live, via a github webhook that will display development (commit) information in realtime. Find me on Discord if you have questions, need assistance, or would like to make requests. Cheers!
Download
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Development log
- v0.428 days ago
- Update to v0.2.2 and Name Change53 days ago
Comments
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Hi ,How long load Companion, by create run a counter current 3,800,400 What is this is run 30 min and still loading.hmm :-)
Hi The same as Albedo 5445, and PC freeze. Blue Version Desktop Version Freeze too.
Hello, I have the Blues version of the game and when I enter the game I'm unable to select anything. Using a quest 3
Screenshot is a little confusing. It looks like the POV is through your VR headset, but because it is at chest holster height, I'm assuming it's not on your head?
If you want to play PC, make sure the headset isn't in PCVR mode and maybe even make sure the Meta Desktop app is closed. Will launch the PC player if no headset connection is detected.
You shouldn't have any issues once I push v0.4.
I've cleaned up the VR menus some and they appear fully functional in my working build.
In the current release, I did see an issue where you couldn't start the game by grabbing a companion cube, which is fixed in 0.4. This was due to case sensitivity issues under the hood.
I'm not aware of any issues in the main menu with selecting a title option.
I'm aiming to release 0.4 within the next 24 hours,so let me know if you see any more issues after that for sure.
Interesting project. I wanted to try it but whenever I modify the options (change openai to lm studio for instance), and then I click "back", the options just reset immediatly to their default value.
Also, whenever I start the game, it asks me to install Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime. I install it, it works, I close the game, and when I restart the game it asks me to install Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime again. But the only available option is "uninstall" and the game won't start unless I uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime...
And I know it's not the top priority right now, but I have an AZERTY keyboard. It would be nice if the game supported non-QWERTY keyboards since (if I managed to connect to LM-Studio) I would constantly have to switch layouts to type in the chatbox and to move around.
Thanks for the game, I really want to try it later, but right now I couldn't make it work at all.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I haven't heard of those last two issues before, so I'll check that out and get back to you on that.
Regarding the UI option resetting back to default, one other way you can see if the selection "took" is the lower right corner of the companion select screen.
I will investigate if the selection really didn't take, or if the UI just shows the default connection first, no matter what.
At the moment I'm setting up an uncensored model for Patreon users to connect to, so that even more folks can get access- but I'll investigate whatever's going on here and add the fix to the next update.
Cheers!
For whatever reason, settings selected in the settings menu don't stay selected. I switch the model to LM Studio, put localhost as the IP (the model is running on the same computer as the game) hit enter, return to the game, then when I go back into the options menu it's defaulted back to OpenAI
I don't know if this is the issue, but if you're running the game and LM Studio on the same machine, try to use "localhost" instead of an IP address. No port, I believe.
Maybe the issue you're seeing is because it's failing to connect and some weirdness happens from that. I will investigate- thanks for letting me know.
But for anyone else looking, when using them both on the same machine, LM Studio expects the HTTP requests are getting sent to "localhost" instead of an IP address.
You can see this too in LM Studio- in the tab for hosting a model locally, there's a python example in the upper right corner that will show localhost as the IP address for the HTTP requests. That's basically how it's structured under the hood.
Settings don't stay selected. When changing companion or selecting any kind of option the create companion button greys out and nothing will make it pressable again.
I know what you're talking about here. I could solution this better for sure. The name and description boxes have a UI requirement to be edited before being marked as "ready", so as a dev, a bug I kept working around forgetting to resolve was this.
You just gotta edit the text in each field and you're able to make a companion- but currently any selection will always give you Lexi.
The next update I push will correct these two issues- so you are "ready" as soon as you click a companion, as well as the other avatars being appropriately spawned in the ship. I'm also adding one more female avatar, to make 3 female and 1 male avatars in total.
Thanks for checking it out, by the way.
Ah ok thanks for that info.
No problem. It's a really facinating project. Can't wait to see how it turns out in the future.
Thank *you* for the much needed call-out! Here's to the future!
dont know what im doing wrong, but when i open it. its just screen with the sky and some music. nothing after that
The build checks if you have a connected VR headset and will launch in VR mode if so. Maybe that's what you're seeing.
I know it launches to VR, but it's not really ready yet, so if that's the case you can fix it by closing SteamVR or Meta's Desktop App so it doesn't think a VR headset is the way to go.
Or toss on your HMD and see if video is streaming through while the game is running.
Hopefully that helps.
Hey, thank you man. That was exactly the problem, as I was starting it with VR running. But if I started and then turn on my VR, so far, it seems to be good. Thank you very much for getting back to me. And good. job on your build. Seems like kind of a first of its kind. I'm pretty excited to check this out.
Thanks a lot! I got VR working in the local development build, minus chat, so with the next update you should at least be able to choose a companion and run around the ship in VR. Cheers!