Experimental Addition, In Progress - A more "natural" Talk Feature

[sr229]

We've started this work around January 2018 and we're getting some progress from it. This will be merged to mainline MAS once deemed complete and feature-parity.

This issue tracker will serve as the Monika-After-Story's copy of our progress.

Expected Trajectory for release: Q2 2018.

Current Working Group

• @sr229 (DevOps, Project Leader, ServOps)
• @fdzjuancarlos (Libitina TSC, Fumiko)
• @Martmists (Libitina TSC, Fumiko)
• @Oxylibrium (Libitina TSC, Libitina)

Repositories

• ProjectMonika/Ivy

TODOs

• Finish up AI Component (Ivy)
• Finish up Dataset (Fern)
• Playtest-ready (Open Alpha, Open Beta)

[ThePotatoGuy]

Hey, you're still developing this as a sub-mod, correct?

[sr229]

@ThePotatoGuy yep! But this is planned to be merged to MAS Mainline as our original objective

[sr229]

Current problems atm:

• Once integrated. Monika will lose her visual emotion feedback per line. Investigating how we can circumvent this.

• Too high PC requirements. Probably only solution to support lower-end devices is using a online distribution (Headless, no AI server included, has to query a public server).

• We have limited lines. and its hard porting all the MAS talk dialogue uwaa

[ThePotatoGuy]

I hope you're not porting everything. A chat ai is great for conversation-style dialogue, but not all of our dialogue is suited for that style.

[sr229]

@ThePotatoGuy well the joke here is even if you fit nonstandard dialogue to Monika, its still up to her to construct those

Based on our 2 months of intensive R&D and testing

[kaido1224]

So you were wanting to move everything to the chat bot AI?

[aldoram5]

Hi @sr229 !
I've been also working on a chat-talking way system for MAS for quite a long time too, that system is a retrieve based NLP powered one, mostly because I wanted to have full control over conversations to maintain the "Monika's voice" while also be able to work with the player input so Monika can "understand" and store player input for later. Also since it is totally custom and doesn't depend on third party libraries it plays nicely with renpy by default.

I have my current legacy system here https://github.com/aldoram5/MonikaModDev/tree/legacy-chat-ai

I started rewriting some core parts of it and those are in another branch.

Since our goals are quite similar we could have a chat if you're interested.

[sr229]

@kaido1224 as far as we are concerened, only the talk feature

@aldoram5 sure! Give us a mail on [email protected] if you're interested merging with us for this project

[sr229]

@Swagsy the specs has been lowered down, so yes.

[ThePotatoGuy]

Just to clarify, @sr229 , your project is unrelated to the Project M(onika) thing by krazyjames, right?

The similar naming scheme is somewhat confusing.

[sr229]

@ThePotatoGuy we are not affiliated with that project, and this project is somewhat older as we started it at November 2017 under a internal codename "Evergreen"

[ThePotatoGuy]

Status of this has changed. closing unless project owners wish to reopen

[sr229]

Requesting Reopen: Project has resumed on a slower pace

[sr229]

Progress update: API is confirmed complete - working on documentation and starting Milestone 2 : Fern dataset.

[Storylover-Vodhr]

I'm looking forward to this one.

[Martmists-GH]

The project leader has been unable to work on the project for various reasons. As a result, development is on hiatus for undetermined amount of time.