Hi Everyone! My name is Jessa and I am the creator of The King’s Dilemma. (My first indie game in development.)

In honor of TKD demo release, here is my first official dev log! 

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What Inspired The King's Dilemma?

The past semester at university, a part of my tech job was to research ChatGPT and write an article about the implications of AI, and whether it has the potential for academic dishonesty, or supplements academic success. 

While my major is in computer science, I have an extreme love for literature and creative writing. My article focused on whether AI would be able to replace writers in the future. 

For my case study, I put in my prompt and ChatGPT wrote a book prologue. Then I rewrote the prologue adding human touch to what ChatGPT was able to produce. From the results, it was clear that while ChatGPT could write, it wasn’t to the level of an experienced writer who can write from the soul.

This led to my finding that AI wouldn’t be able to replace writers. (Link to see AI Case Study.)

After this task, I continued to explore the capabilities of ChatGPT with different prompts since I consider it to be a great tool for writer’s block. It can be used as a writing prompt generator.

I typed in a prompt wanting ChatGPT to make a visual novel about a king. I was pleasantly surprised with the results! It gave me a simple writing prompt, but it gave me inspiration on the route I could take my story.  It also gave me a title, The King's Dilemma. That’s how The King’s Dilemma became the official name of my game. While I took inspiration from the prompt, the dialogue I wrote myself.

The King’s Dilemma was originally supposed to be a small project for my developer portfolio, but it’s become a story dear to my heart and I intend to turn this game into a complete immersive visual novel!

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What is The King's Dilemma About?

The King’s Dilemma follows the life of Prince Rosendale.

In the kingdom of Rosendale, the land has recently lost its ruler. Prince Rosendale, as the last surviving heir, is expected to carry on his father's legacy. Having no time to grieve, and struggling to accept the portion of his fate, He has the choice to accept the responsibility of ruling his kingdom, or relinquishing the throne and facing the consequences that could drive his kingdom to ruin. 

Will he make the right decision? → (Find out for free The King's Dilemma!)

This is a story that delves into the themes of fate, destiny, romance, and found-family.

The king’s actual “dilemma” is a bit more complicated than his decision to claim his rightful place on the throne, but that secret will have to wait until the final release of the game!

Thank you so much for being interested, and I hope you’ll continue with me on this journey! 

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See you soon!

~Jessa 👾