Ghost Shift
Ghost Shift
A short thriller set in a museum basement after midnight. You play as Mara Torres, a contract cataloger who uncovers something wrong in the bronze collection and finds herself in a deadly dangerous situation.
Estimated playtime: 10-20 minutes
Content warning: AI content, mild violence
What It Is
- A bite sized interactive short story
- Only 17 pages including alternate endings
- Designed to be played in one sitting
Experimental AI & Tools
Ghost Shift is our third experiment with AI storytelling and game development. Our goal is to create short but well written stories with interactive components. Keeping the scope small allows us to iterate quickly and focus on quality over quantity.
For this game we developed a better iteration process for creating stories with AI tools. This helps us improve both the overall story structure and prose quality. The story went through over 10 revision passes with both human and AI feedback.
We also experimented with a new visual direction to give the game a nostalgic feel. The cover uses photorealistic box art to create a kind of meta fiction, presenting it like a real lost retro game. That vintage educational game concept also shaped the AI generated music. If this vibe works we may explore it more in future games.
AI Models Used
- Story Outline & Prose: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Image Prompt Writing: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Cover Image: Nano Banana 2
- Page Images: gpt-image-1.5
- Music: Suno v4.5
- Font: IBM Plex Mono
Grandma Addie's Jollof
- Rinse 1 cup rice and let drain.
- Saute some chopped onion in oil.
- Stir in 1 tablespoon of tomato paste.
- Stir in 1 cup tomato sauce, salt, and lots of smoked paprika.
- Add rice and 1.5 cups of water. Bring to a boil.
- Cover, turn heat low, cook 15 minutes.
- Rest 10 minutes, fluff.
Comments
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Interesting how you've integrated different AI tools to different aspects of dev!
yep, we've got a whole pipeline here! we hope to do a dev post sometime that explains a little more about how our process and code works.
Pretty neat little story going on!
The images fit really well together; getting them all the same style can be pretty difficult, so good job on that part.
I feel the story has a sorta dark/mystery vibe, and maybe the music could be updated to fit that. Or, have it change based on the scene being shown.
Good job overall
thanks! my goal was to focus on short story and ran through many iterative passes with AI and human rewrites. I also experimented a lot with music and this track really seemed to work for me, setting the old school edutainment vibe. in future games i want to experiment with switching to more dramatic music at key points, just keeping things focused for now.