Latitude brings AI-generated artwork to AI Dungeon

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AI Dungeon realized the dream many gamers have had since the ’80s: an evolving storyline that players themselves create and direct. Now, it’s going further with a new feature that enables players to generate images that illustrate those stories.

Developed by indie game studio Latitude, which was initially a one-person operation, AI Dungeon writes dialogue and scene descriptions using one of several text-generating AI models — allowing players to respond to events how they choose (within reason). It remains a work in progress, but with the emergence of image-generating systems like Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, Latitude is investing in new ways to liven up players’ narratives.

Within the AI Dungeon UI, you can select a “See” option at any time to prompt Stable Diffusion to generate an illustration.

Access requires a subscription to one of Latitude’s premium plans, which starts at $9.99 per month. It’s a credit-based system — generating an image costs two credits, with credit limits ranging from 480 per month for the cheapest plan to 1,650 for the priciest ($29.99 per month). On the AI Dungeon client available through Valve’s Steam marketplace, which is priced at $30, members get 500 credits with their purchase.

“With Stable Diffusion, image generation is fast enough and cheap enough to offer custom image generation to everyone. Image generation is fun on its own, and being able to create custom images to go with your AI Dungeon story was a no brainer,” Latitude senior marketing director Josh Terranova told TechCrunch via email.

Unlike image-generating systems of a comparable fidelity (e.g., OpenAI’s DALL-E 2), Stable Diffusion is unrestricted in what it can create excepting the versions served through an API, like Stability