Building a cloud-themed adventure game on PartyRock!
This post describe how to use PartyRock to create an adventure game. In this case, I choose a Cloud theme as I would love players to gain Cloud experience at the same time they have fun playing the game.
Published Feb 28, 2024
Intro
As part of the AWS PartyRock Hackathon, I built this fun game. I took inspiration from the adventure games I used to play as a kid.
But what is PartyRock? PartyRock is a GenAI playground that enables people to play around with GenAI in an educational and fun way. By entering a quick text PartyRock generates an application for you and you can then tweak it as you see fit.
Creating the Game
To create the game, I used the following prompt:
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Create a Cloud-themed adventure game called "The secret path to Cloud" where the user can chat with the game to explore the game world do actions and resolve puzzles. The game should feel like a 90s adventure game.
The game has the following 3 levels (all three levels are part of the same game, meaning it is part of the same chat). For each level, they are only provided with 4 options/answers. They only pass to the next level if they answer correctly. Like a multiple choice exam where they pass to the next level only if they answer correctly by choosing the valid answer between 4 options (1 valid option, 3 non-valid options) (always in the same chat). If they provide a non-valid answer they will remain on the same level until they answer with the correct answer.
Levels:
Level 1) User is in a data center room and must migrate one of their database servers to the cloud. Find the low-performing server and execute an aws cli command to migrate it. They only pass to the next room if they answer they use Database Migration Service.
Level 2) The user is in a monitoring room and discovers that their program is slow. It needs to rewrite the app to execute it on AWS Lambda. They are provided with a set of languages that they can use to rewrite their app. (Non-valid options: Perl, Bash, COBOL Valid answer: Python)
Level 3) User is in a white room and wants to ask questions to an inteligent machine. User needs to find a way to interact with it. Give it a brain. (Non-valid options: Rekognition, Transcribe, Translate Valid answer: Lex).
If they choose Lex the game ends, with some happy phrase. I first noticed that the script needed to be fully configured in the chat widget, as the initial prompt only took the basic gist of it. I created a static section for the script to fix this, as I planned to use it in several widgets.
Then, I edited the Chat widget to reference the full script:
I had to rework the script several times until the game started to act as I was expecting.
After that, I decided to add a section to show the game source code. This would be useful for educational reasons and for anyone wanting to build the game for any platform.
I also added a Picture so that the PartyRock app feels like a real game.
And that was it!
Conclusion
Building an app on PartyRock is fun and straightforward. It provides a very interactive way to add widgets and experiment with LLM models of all kinds. There are no coding skills required to create something significant. I created a simple 3-level game in about 10 minutes, but this could be extrapolated to something more significant with a little bit of time.