In 2024, I joined a small team working on a clone of Character AI. I had the opportunity to be mentored by someone from Google Brain Lab, which provided me with the foundation for building emotionally responsive characters. However, I wanted to go further, to turn that tech into something more interactive, more playful. The team wasn’t on the same page, and eventually, the whole thing fell apart. That’s when the idea for Dream Novel started to form - kind of out of nowhere, during a conversation with my brother. He’s a huge fan of Visual Novels, and he has some experience with AI image and text generation. We were talking, and something just clicked: what if we used all this LLM tech not for chatbots, but for storytelling - dynamic, branching, evolving stories where the player matter...
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