AI Dungeon will be ad-free. The news was announced as part of yesterday's "unchained" announcement (opens in new tab), in which Latitude CEO Nick Walton and his co-owners announced that the AI Dungeon, a D&D-inspired, artificial intelligence-powered, text-based They revealed that they have made some major changes to the game master.

I found AI Dungeon to be one of the best text-based games to use when tabletop GMs felt too strict (opens in new tab), but I must admit I was a bit put off when Latitude turned to advertising to keep it running I have to admit that I was a little put off when Latitude turned to advertising to keep it running. Basically, as the story unfolds in front of you, you have the opportunity to reroll each segment, as well as other actions that will strain the AI. For a while, the number of actions was limited and could be refreshed by watching an ad. Now, however, "users can play with an unlimited number of actions."

In fact, actions will be discontinued as a resource, but "players who have accumulated actions will be able to convert those actions into scales. Scales are the currency of AI dungeons and can be used to increase AI generation speed, etc.

Of course, it is understandable that a company in its infancy would experiment with potential revenue streams; AI dungeons are probably one of the most demanding PC games in terms of GPU power (open in new tab), especially now that developers have integrated a stable diffuse HD image generation model that is quite expensive to run It will be.

Thankfully, Latitude has found a new way to make money, and it is not stuck in a storm of immersion-destroying ads as you venture into the potential space.

Devin Northrup, Director of Experience, notes: "No one likes advertising, including us.

This was announced at the same time as the announcement that the game is now free on Steam (opens in a new tab), demonstrating a commitment to finding new ways to make money.

Major improvements have also been made to the quality of the AI models and the data on which they are trained. The developers also decided not to make rapid daily updates to the game, but instead to "bundle changes into larger, more stable releases throughout the year."

UI and UX improvements are also among the upcoming improvements announced as part of the unchained experience, with a follow-up to be announced in early 2023.