u/Arkanta

Disclaimer: self promo

Hello everyone!

I'm one of the developers behind Imagina (https://playimagina.com), a AI Storytelling platform (yeah yeah, like 100s of them) we just launched. Imagina is a "book you're the hero of" kind of platform, where you play worlds authored by other people or generate your own

There is a lot of replayability by trying with a different character, different world settings or even models.

I started with character chats and got more into complex stories with multiple ones in more of a book like experience, so I built this for myself as other websites got a bit frustrating and I wanted to explore my take on it.

There are three differences with most of the stuff I came accross:

Most of the similar apps/websites are laying more into the RPG side of things: stats, dice rolls, etc. We have nothing like that and don't really plan on doing so, like we have no combat engine. It's more for a "live in this world" type of game!

It is optimized for long turns, not short replies. I found that while it's a turnoff for some people, others like me actually look for this. It has the stuff you exepect: PC/NPC tracking, plot threads, a complex memory system, etc. I'm working on more like location tracking or actual story conclusions

It gives you full control: you have a debug panel where you can see the AI's current state, add/remove narrative rules, see the current NPCs, etc. You can also steer the story in any way you like separately from your character's action, so you can really take control of the story should you want to.

My obsession has been keeping costs down and not designing myself into a corner where if this takes off I'd eventually need to nerf the models and provide a worse user experience. The ultimate goal is to use community models or at least jailbroken public ones (like Gemma) so that I won't have to decomission AIs that people actually enjoy, like the loss of 4o.

NSFW is completly optional and disabled by default, but if you're looking for such an experience you should be well served too.

Anyways, I'm probably underselling it but I'd really really love to get feedback (good and bad) and hopefully some stories published by 3rd parties. Say you're from here and I'll give you bonus credits! I've been working on this for a bit more than 4 months and I'm starting to wonder if I have a niche that I can satisfy or if I'm wasting my time and should just go back to keeping this for me on the side

Here is our dead for now Discord: https://discord.gg/MjPnfQEY

Hope you like it

Hello everyone!

I'm one of the developers behind Imagina (https://playimagina.com), a AI Storytelling platform (yeah yeah, like 100s of them). Imagina is a "book you're the hero of" kind of platform, where you play worlds authored by other people or generate your own

There is a lot of replayability by trying with a different character, different world settings or even models.

I started with character chats and got more into complex stories with multiple ones in more of a book like experience, so I built this for myself as other websites got a bit frustrating and I wanted to explore my take on it.

There are three differences with most of the stuff I came accross:

• Most of the similar apps/websites are laying more into the RPG side of things: stats, dice rolls, etc. We have nothing like that and don't really plan on doing so, like we have no combat engine. It's more for a "live in this world" type of game!
• It is optimized for long turns, not short replies. I found that while it's a turnoff for some people, others like me actually look for this. It has the stuff you exepect: PC/NPC tracking, plot threads, a complex memory system, etc. I'm working on more like location tracking or actual story conclusions
• It gives you full control: you have a debug panel where you can see the AI's current state, add/remove narrative rules, see the current NPCs, etc. You can also steer the story in any way you like separately from your character's action, so you can really take control of the story should you want to.

My obsession has been keeping costs down and not designing myself into a corner where if this takes off I'd eventually need to nerf the models and provide a worse user experience. The ultimate goal is to use community models or at least jailbroken public ones (like Gemma) so that I won't have to decomission AIs that people actually enjoy, like the loss of 4o.

NSFW is completly optional and disabled by default, but if you're looking for such an experience you should be well served too.

Anyways, I'm probably underselling it but I'd really really love to get feedback (good and bad) and hopefully some stories published by 3rd parties. Say you're from here and I'll give you bonus credits!

Quick info: Legal: Cloud app, meaning that I can see what you write in it. I wish I had a way to make it so I couldn't but at the end of the day I have to send the requests to the models. Pricing: Credit based, couple of free turns a day Model specs: Cloud models, a lot are available (Google/xAI/Xiaomi/Deepseek)

Here is our dead for now Discord: https://discord.gg/MjPnfQEY

Have a great Sunday,