Infinite Craft
| Infinite Craft | |
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| Developer(s) | Neal Agarwal |
| Publisher(s) | Neal Agarwal |
| Programmer(s) | Neal Agarwal |
| Platform(s) | Web |
| Release | January 31, 2024 |
| Genre(s) | Sandbox |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Infinite Craft is a 2024 sandbox[1] browser game developed by Neal Agarwal. Agarwal began developing the game on January 16, 2024,[2] and announced its public release 15 days later on Twitter.[3] The game reached popularity on the internet upon its release, gaining tens of thousands of active users.[4]
Gameplay
In Infinite Craft, the player starts with four classical elements—Water, Fire, Wind, and Earth—and combines them into new elements by dragging them from the sidebar and placing them on top of each other. For example, Water and Fire make Steam, and Earth and Water make Plant.[5] All elements crafted by the player are added to the sidebar, where the player can also search for crafted elements by their name. The game uses AI to produce new elements,[6] which makes it possible to have practically infinite content.[note 1][7]
Elements that can be created include, but are not limited to, objects, places,[8] poems, fictional characters,[5] the universe, philosophical concepts,[1] video games, sports players and teams,[9] animals, God, and the Big Bang.[7] If a player is the first person to discover an element, the game tells them it is a "First Discovery". The player can also see all first discoveries they have made by clicking on the Discoveries button on the bottom of the sidebar.
Development
Infinite Craft was made by Neal Agarwal, a developer based in New York.[10] He developed Infinite Craft for his website, neal.fun, which has a collection of various browser games made by him. The website was launched on October 26, 2017,[11] but was popularized when Agarwal released The Password Game, in which the player needs to pick a password that abides by increasingly unusual and complicated rules.
Technical details
All elements in Infinite Craft are generated by a generative AI model LLaMA2, which is hosted by Together AI.[6][12] The game itself runs on Neal Agarwal's servers.
When a player combines two elements on the website, the game checks from its database if these two elements have already been combined before—and if they weren't, a prompt is sent to LLaMA to determine the outcome, which then gets saved to the game's database. This is done to reduce repeated, duplicate queries, and to ensure that the same pair of elements always outputs the same result for all players.[13]
Reception
Christian Donlan of Eurogamer compared Infinite Craft to one of his lucid dreams, explaining that an element "always [runs] away" when the player tries to figure out what elements to combine.[5]
See also
- The Password Game, another game by Neal Agarwal
Notes
- ^ LLaMA2, the generative AI the game uses, has 32,000 unique tokens. The maximum amount of tokens an in-game element can have is 20[citation needed], which brings the theoretical limit to 32,00020.
References
- ^ a b Litchfield, Ted (February 4, 2024). "This browser-based 'endless crafting game' starts you off with fire and water, but it quickly escalates to God, the Big Bang, and 'Yin-Yoda'". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on February 12, 2024. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
- ^ Agarwal, Neal [@nealagarwal] (January 16, 2024). "Working on an endless crafting game with llama 2" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Agarwal, Neal [@nealagarwal] (January 31, 2024). "The first version of Infinite Craft, an endless crafting game, is out now!" (Tweet). Retrieved February 18, 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Agarwal, Neal [@nealagarwal] (February 13, 2024). "I'm never going to financially recover from this" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b c Donlan, Christian (February 6, 2024). "Infinite Craft is a powerful glimpse into other minds". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
- ^ a b Ganguly, Sharmila (February 17, 2024). "Does Infinite Craft use AI?". Dot eSports. Archived from the original on February 17, 2024. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- ^ a b Smith, Graham (February 6, 2024). "Infinite Craft is a browser game in which you can craft anything, from God to Minecraft". Rock Paper Shotgun. Archived from the original on February 9, 2024. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
- ^ "Crafting the Wonders of Asia in Infinite Craft". Infinite Craft Recipes. 2024-03-20. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
- ^ Fay, Kacee (February 16, 2024). "How to make Minecraft in Infinite Craft". Dot eSports. Archived from the original on February 18, 2024. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
- ^ Barrett, Brian (October 26, 2023). "Can anyone save the internet? Neal Agarwal is trying, one Hampster Dance at a time". Business Insider. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
- ^ Agarwal, Neal [@nealagarwal] (October 26, 2017). "Today I'm launching neal.fun. It will be a collection of everything I make when I'm bored during lecture" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Galekovic, Filip (February 7, 2024). "What is Infinite Craft? Neal Fun's latest game, explained". Destructoid. Archived from the original on February 9, 2024. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- ^ Press-Reynolds, Kieran (March 4, 2024). "Playing Infinite Craft Is Like Peering Into an A.I.'s Brain". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2024. Retrieved April 8, 2024.