Play Whodunit?: Solve AI authored mysteries
Can a large language model craft a brand-new murder mystery on demand? Explore a mystery-writing AI and the tips and tricks that help it generate coherent, logic-driven mysteries for players to solve. The system writes backwards from the solution, breaks the story into structured steps, and uses Temporal to manage retries when APIs fail. The result is a low-tech game powered by cutting-edge tools.
James is a software engineer at Apartment 304, which he co-founded in 2016. He works primarily on cloud architecture, application, and data engineering projects, and enjoys using Go whenever he can. He automates Halloween decorations and recently enlisted AI’s help in writing murder mysteries for game night.
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