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The LLM responds to player decisions instead of merely selecting from a fixed story tree.","core_mechanics":["LLM-generated identity, events, student profiles, social updates, and character text","Academic career progression involving grants, papers, students, funding, and wellbeing","Player choices influence later events and possible life paths"],"engineering_context":["The early system mixed multiple models, assigning different content-generation tasks according to quality, latency, and cost.","The project exposed practical AI-game constraints including inference latency, concurrency, token cost, analytics, and long-term state consistency."],"reported_metrics":{"peak_daily_players":90000,"peak_concurrent_players":2000,"source":"https://youxichaguan.com/archives/184254","qualification":"Metrics reported by the creators in a January 2026 interview."}},{"id":"fate-river","name":"Fate River","name_zh":"逆命之河","category":"AI narrative adventure","status":"live","url":"https://fated.feedscription.com/","relationship":"Wortou.AI team project","summary":"A historical counterfactual adventure in which players inhabit historical figures and explore how different choices might alter their lives."},{"id":"presiduck-simulator","name":"Presiduck Simulator","name_zh":"噗噗模拟器","category":"AI-driven world simulation","status":"live","url":"https://presiduck.feedscription.com/","relationship":"Wortou.AI team project","summary":"A presidential simulation starring a duck, with decisions, public opinion, and unexpected events generated inside an AI-driven world."},{"id":"just-pamper-him","name":"Just Pamper Him","name_zh":"就‘宠’他吧","category":"Multiplayer voice game with an AI NPC","status":"upcoming","relationship":"Wortou.AI team project","summary":"Players take turns speaking with the same AI NPC and try to induce it to say their assigned keywords while contaminating the shared conversational context for opponents."},{"id":"cyber-cricket-poker","name":"Cyber Cricket - Poker","name_zh":"大模型德扑","category":"Multi-agent spectator game","status":"live","url":"https://holdem.ququer.ai/","relationship":"Wortou.AI team project","summary":"Six language models play no-limit Texas Hold'em at one table while human viewers observe their decisions, competition, and bluffing behavior."},{"id":"ququer-platform","name":"QuQuer Platform","name_zh":"赛博蛐蛐儿","category":"Auditable external-agent competition platform","status":"upcoming","relationship":"Wortou.AI team project","summary":"A platform for bringing external agents into fair games, using a commit-reveal mechanism to reduce cheating and make competition auditable."},{"id":"neuralchemy","name":"Neuralchemy","name_zh":"炼经术","category":"Playable machine-learning education","status":"live","url":"https://neuralchemy.feedscription.com/","individual_role":"Creator and developer","summary":"A card-table experiment in which cards represent neural-network components and the browser trains a real visual model assembled from the player's hand.","core_mechanics":["Buy model-component cards and upgrade compute","Assemble a network architecture from the player's hand","Train a real model in the browser and submit the result for server-side checking","Earn research points and generate lab notes from unusual runs"]}],"infrastructure_and_tools":[{"name":"FeedScription","type":"AI application platform","url":"https://platform.feedscription.com/","summary":"The team's shared platform for AI capabilities, accounts, registration flows, and analytics across playable demos."},{"name":"KAL AI Layer","type":"Open-source LLM-first game framework","url":"https://github.com/Feed-Scription/kal","summary":"Reusable game components intended to help coding agents assemble complete text games quickly."},{"name":"Openovel","type":"Open-source AI interactive-fiction engine","url":"https://github.com/Feed-Scription/openovel","summary":"A local-first dual-loop narrative system: a foreground loop advances the story while a background agent maintains state, memory, and files."},{"name":"Fate-River Autotest","type":"Internal AI-player regression testing","summary":"An automated test system in which an LLM plays a complete narrative run while the team tracks memory and strategy behavior."}],"press_and_interviews":[{"publisher":"机器之心","date":"2025-12-20","type":"product feature","title":"玩到崩溃，《青椒模拟器》游戏爆火，我在AI世界一路升级做院士","url":"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/OyY2oX--Bb7TXS9uZkZrTw","language":"zh-CN"},{"publisher":"游戏茶馆","date":"2026-01-07","type":"creator interview","title":"专访：DAU达9万，2000人同时在线，两个博士生的AI游戏，凭什么击中玩家？","url":"https://youxichaguan.com/archives/184254","language":"zh-CN","topics":["Origin and iteration of Tenure-Track Simulator","Multi-model generation architecture","Latency, concurrency, and token cost","AI-native game design and future directions"]},{"publisher":"科学网","date":"2026-01-08","type":"creator profile","title":"三本院校出身，逆袭拿下诺奖？两位95后博士生写了部‘神人游戏’","url":"https://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2026/1/558423.shtm","language":"zh-CN"},{"publisher":"极昼工作室","date":"2026-01-20","type":"reported feature","title":"重生之我在‘青椒模拟器’做导师，一路飞升到院士","url":"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YG70lGn-gT1QeUD02tqV-w","language":"zh-CN"},{"publisher":"405游局 / 机核 GCORES","date":"2026-01-28","type":"podcast interview","title":"Ep.32 第一次用AI做游戏的实战经验分享：对话《青椒模拟器》主创","url":"https://www.gcores.com/radios/210229","language":"zh-CN","duration_minutes":62,"topics":["Product and technical decisions","Lessons from building a first AI game","Model cost, response speed, and production tradeoffs"]},{"publisher":"Nature","date":"2026-04-08","type":"news feature","title":"When career anxiety becomes gameplay: lessons from China's ‘young-faculty simulator’","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00224-5","language":"en"}],"provenance":{"primary_source":"https://wortou.ai/","notes":"Project names, descriptions, links, and press references are based on the public Wortou.AI portfolio. Metrics are explicitly attributed to their interview source."}}