Playful AI Jam Submission

MUD RPG: Wastelands & Wards

 Submission Date: August 18, 2025 Game Type: Web-based RPG with AI-powered combination mechanics

CORRECT URL

https://mudrpg.vercel.app/

Game Overview

MUD RPG is a complete white-label platform for creating AI-powered web RPGs. Wastelands & Wards is our flagship demo showcasing the full editing suite and platform capabilities that can be resold to 100+ clients.

Setting: After the Last Patch, magic and machinery collided. Players explore irradiated ruins with their AI familiar, where refrigerators demand alignment checks and everything combines into something magical.

Core Concept: Kingdom of Loathing meets Fallout with a deadpan AI Dungeon Master

Demo Links

🎮 Play Demo:https://mudrpg.vercel.app/

• Request admin access to map making/level designer etc tools

 📹 Video Walkthrough: https://www.loom.com/share/1acdf8349beb410eae4800530ca2eec0?sid=64eb5619-79b4-421d-bf5c-7d64ae5903d0

THE MUD RPG PLATFORM: COMPLETE EDITING SUITE

🏗️ White-Label Server Builder

Design Your Own Worlds: Complete suite of editing tools for creating custom RPG servers:

Core Requirements Met

✅ Combination Mechanics

• The crafting system is based on the ai being seeded with as many components as we want to put in the system, and when it at run time sees what its combining it on the fly will decide what the result is.
• Next phase: Ai seeds its own components, so that all elements of the crafting system are ad hoc on the fly, no two runs the same

Example: Banana Peel + String

• Intent: Pet Care → "Tethered Snack" (Hunger +15, Mood +10)
• Intent: Gear → Denied with humor: "Your pet refuses to wear lunch as a lifestyle"

✅ 25+ Combinations

✅ Mobile-Friendly Web Experience

• Actions Panel: 2-4 contextual buttons per turn
• One-thumb gameplay design
• Responsive layout for all screen sizes
• Fast loading and smooth performance

✅ "Holy Shit" Moment

When players first combine Rust Flake + Fridge Magnet into a "Polarized Plate" that converts debuffs into shields, the emergent logic clicks. The AI isn't random—it understands thematic coherence.

✅ AI Enhanced Elements

• Claude generates dialog, combat quips
• Elevenlabs has ai text to speech
• Gemini and Gpt are used at different times in combat and in scanning to do user intent detection and tool calling
  • Next phase build out more auto function calling with langchain/langgraph make the dm truly capable of doing all the things a human one can do

Core Gameplay Loop

1. Explore: Choose from AI-generated Actions Panel (Search, Fight, Combine, Care)
2. Collect: Find items through exploration and combat
3. Combine: Drag two items, select intent, AI resolves with humor
4. Care: Manage pet's Hunger, Mood, Cleanliness, Focus, Stability
5. Fight: Turn-based combat with Interjections and Sigil system
6. Evolve: Pet evolves based on care history (Scrapling → Road-Knight)