I asked OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate 31 different videogame ideas, one for each day of Blaugust, each dealing in some way with that particular day of the month. Here’s its idea for August 29th: “Leap Year: the 29th Day”.
Genre: Visual Novel: Title: “Leap Year: The 29th Day”. Outline: Every four years, on the leap day in the leap year, every living creature on Earth disappears from midnight to midnight — except you, a young woman who has an entire day to do whatever she wants. She can stay up as late as she wants, eat whatever she wants, go wherever she wants — the world is hers for 24 hours. But this year is different: someone else is still awake.
You wake up on Leap Day to find that everyone in the world has disappeared. Except for one other person. Together, you have an entire day to do whatever you want – there are no rules, no consequences. What will you do with your day?
Leap Year is a visual novel about choices and consequences, set against the backdrop of a world where everyone disappears for 24 hours on Leap Day.
Explore a city filled with empty streets and abandoned buildings, uncovering clues about what happened to the people who used to live there. And make choices that will determine your own fate. Any choice you make could shape the next four years of your life. Maybe you will rob a bank? Set right a wrong? Find love? Because you aren’t alone…
The stranger you meet is a young man who has also been affected by the Leap Day phenomenon. He is the only other person who is still awake in the world, and he has no recollection of how he got there. Together, you must find out what happened to the world on Leap Day and why you are the only two people left awake.
The stranger is a mysterious figure, and it will be up to you to decide whether to trust him or not.
Chapter 1: The Day the World Disappeared
You wake up on Leap Day to find that everyone in the world has disappeared. Except for one other person. Together, you have an entire day to do whatever you want – there are no rules, no consequences. What will you do with your day?
Chapter 2: The Search for Answers
You and the stranger begin searching for answers as to what happened on Leap Day. You soon discover that the world is a very different place when it’s empty. And you’re not the only one who’s still awake…
Chapter 3: The Battle for Survival
As more people begin to reappear, it becomes clear that not everyone is friendly. You must fight for your survival as you try to figure out what’s going on and how to get back home.
Chapter 4: The Truth Revealed
The truth about Leap Day is finally revealed. But it may be too late for you and the stranger. Can you make it back home alive?
So… what do you think happened?
I have no idea. But it’s clear that we’re the only two people left in the world.
Do you think everyone is dead?
I don’t know. I hope not. But we need to find out what happened. Maybe there’s a way to reverse it.
How? Where do we even start?
I don’t know. But we need to try. Together, we can figure this out.
