Latitude Unveils AI-Powered RPG Platform Voyage for Custom Game Design

Users can also establish game mechanics like abilities, leveling systems and combat challenges.

Voyage offers text-based experiences across genres from cozy adventures to hardcore quests, with audio narration available. Players type actions, and the AI narrates outcomes including non-player character responses without a fixed script, leading to unexpected interactions like becoming a goblin therapist during an attack or a troll discussing marriage troubles while tying up a character.

The platform includes a chatbot to suggest actions or skip story parts.

Character progression depends on skills and luck, similar to rolling dice in tabletop games, with abilities like 'Counterspell' to stop enemy magic, drawing inspiration from classic Dungeons & Dragons spells. At the core of Voyage is Latitude's World Engine, which took the company five years to develop.

The engine leverages multiple AI systems to narrate actions, manage gameplay, track characters and objects, and remember backstories and relationships, ensuring continuity so characters recall previous interactions and may become rivals if betrayed.

“Characters aren’t just reactions to you, but have their own personality backstory, that react to you in ways that feel like real, and that’s really part of the magic of the engine,” said Nick Walton, Latitude CEO and co-founder. Latitude launched AI Dungeon in 2019, which attracted millions of players.

“It exploded on the internet as one of the first times people interacted with generative AI,” Walton said.

” Voyage is currently in expanded beta testing, with an open beta scheduled for later this year. Early testers have interacted with over 160,000 unique AI-generated characters, and the average player has made nearly 3,000 gameplay choices. Latitude announced a partnership with Google’s AI Futures Fund.

Voyage combines proprietary models with Google’s Gemini Flash for image generation and Gemma for text, audio and video. Former Roblox Chief Business Officer Craig Donato joined Latitude as an investor and board member. Other investors include Album VC, Griffin Gaming Partners, Midjourney and NFX.

Voyage is free to play, with subscription plans priced at $15, $30 and $50 offering advanced AI features and removal of action limitations. The platform implements safety measures and parental controls to filter inappropriate material, suitable for all ages though some experiences include mature content similar to Steam offerings.

TechCrunch reported these details from testing and interviews, including instances where interactions veered into surprising directions, such as non-player characters sharing personal troubles.