“Learn about your soul, follow the notes of The Raink, find The Vondered, and enter the Palace of The Thousand.”
Me, The Machine, and Edgar. A collaboration between the designer, an AI, and Edgar Allen Poe.
An AI was trained using the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe to generate raw text for the game scripts, which are then curated by the designer to form the entire game dialogue. The game intends to explore the concept of authorship and the bounds of ownership of works created with an AI.
Is AI just a tool to create art, or is it the creator? By approximation of his work, did Edgar Allen Poe posthumously have a part in the creation of the work or did the designer? Does this distinction matter?