#chatscript

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Thanatophobia by Robert Goodwin

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============= Synopsis

A session with Madeline. Probe into the psyche of a frightened young woman in an experimental psychological horror game built around conversation. (not scary)

============= Other Info

Thanatophobia is a ChatScript parser, submitted to the 2022 Edition of the IFComp. It was ranked 39th overall. The game requires a IPv6 address to work.

Status: Completed Genre: Horror, Psychological Horror

CW: Inappropriate for young kids. / substance abuse, death

============= Playthrough

First Played: 2-Oct-2022 Last Played: 12-Dec-2023 Playtime: around 1h Rating: 3 /5 Thoughts: Help me help you

============= Review

Thanatophobia is a relatively short horror chat-like parser in which you play a therapist trying to uncover what is scaring Madeline, your patient. There are two elements to uncover, before you can make progress and reach the end.

Spoilers ahead. It is recommended to play the game first. The review is based on my understanding/reading of the story.

I remember enjoying this game quite a bit when I first played this game, mainly because this is a parser where you could type complete nonsense and still get a coherent response out of the chatbot. Even if there are hints on the page, to guide your psychological session, their vagueness didn't make you feel cheated for solving the puzzle. My stance on the game has somewhat evolved since.

As with my first playthrough the game, I enjoyed the psychological horror aspect of the story. From the start, there is something quite wrong with the person answering your questions - questions often left somewhat unanswered. Madeline only reveals the truth when your force it out of her, probing her mind until she gives in - which at times requires quite a bit of walking around the bush, as she is not the most forthcoming person, deflecting any element that is a bit too hard to deal with.

Replaying it so long after, I had honestly forgotten about the twist that came with the final beat of the game. Until the absolute last moment, I even was doubting who the strange figure was truly (something I had caught early on the first time around). Still, that moment brings everything into context, showing how much Madeline struggles with her issues and how it affected her. It is incredibly sad, yet ends on a hopeful note.

The horror aspect of this game doesn't just stem from the setting itself, and the story as a whole, but the gameplay as well. Unlike the majority of parsers, this one is not bound by rigid commands to advance the plot. Instead, the system will still respond to the most strange commands given (even complete and utter nonsense). It is incredibly eerie how the "AI" answer your questions, even striking back in frustration when you are not making any substantial progress with the session.

But this system is not without friction. As it is a chat-experience, Madeline does not say more than a few sentences at a time, forcing you to time a command during monologues - which at times broke if the command resembled a bit too much one for another bit of the story. I think I would have rather gotten a larger block of text, or multiple messages in a row. In the same vein, getting information out of Madeline is sometimes pretty frustrating, even if you can mark it out as 'the patient being a bit difficult in sessions because it is a heavy topic'.

Overall, this was an interesting game. One I do not wish to revisit any time soon. Turns out, I have thanatophobia too :/

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OG Review during the IFComp:

(not scary) was misleading, but in a good way.

Now that’s a parser game right up my alley! I could type complete nonsense and still get something out of it

But seriously, this was the kind of creepy psychological horror that I enjoy. Something is definitely wrong, but no one wants to address it until they are forced to. The little hints during the conversation with Madeleine where you know she is not forthcoming about the topic and will try to deflect it.

Even if I saw the twist coming after finding Detail N*2, this was still highly enjoyable to play. The twist itself is a bit sad when you think about it, but hopeful, which is nice.

It was also very neat to have a help section and hints to ‘help’ us progress through the story. Thank you for including it!

Overall, a pretty short and to-the-point game that made me a bit creeped out by the AI now… Good thing I didn’t play it before going to bed.

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ChatScript

A scripting language designed to accept user text input and generate a text response.

Chat proceeds in volleys, like tennis. The program inputs one or more sentences from the user and outputs one or more sentences back.

In most common usage, what you build is a chatbot, a program that takes input from a human and outputs a response. It converses with you. But I have also built a chatbot that is dedicated to reading a document. The input, in that case, is the entire document.

What, if any, output it generates is up to its program. My program was designed to find the table of contents, each chapter boundary, and where the index at the back was.

So, more broadly, ChatScript is a system for manipulating natural language, not just for building a chatbot.

This document is about how to write script. There is a more general discussion about how to think about authoring a bot in the paper Writing a Chatbot in the documentation.

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via Chatbots Magazine

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nano rnet

#imis/internet is the apn for idea connection connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/gprs -T imis/internet"

# For Raspberry Pi3 use /dev/ttyS0 as the communication port: /dev/ttyS0

# Baudrate 115200

# Assumes that your IP address is allocated dynamically by the ISP. noipdefault

# Try to get the name server addresses from the ISP. usepeerdns

# Use this connection as the default route to the internet. defaultroute

# Makes PPPD "dial again" when the connection is lost. persist

# Do not ask the remote to authenticate. noauth

# No hardware flow control on the serial link with GSM Modem nocrtscts

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An interesting article about several natural language processing techniques. Especially the ChatScript manner seems particularly interesting.

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ChatBot: Comment nous avons construit AI Chatbot en utilisant JavaScript et ChatScript

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Cet article est basé sur l’expérience de l’utilisation de ChatScript (CS) dans l’un des récents projets de WebbyLab. Je suis heureux de partager ce que nous avons appris, les difficultés que nous avons rencontrées et les approches que nous avons utilisées pour les vaincre sur le chemin de la programmation de chatbot.

La tâche principale…