Project Highlights

Three Things We Are Making:

A ~30-minute mobile experience. You’re discovered, you’re signed, and across four in-game weeks you build an identity, including a voice, a look, a song, a debut.

Generation runs inside the play loop, not in a tools menu. Every AI call in the project passes through one gateway that logs it, prices it and traces it.

The Playbook

We are building with gen-AI on instinct, because no such project ever existed before. We’re logging every call from day 1 and documenting all the process.

Seedance: Video Generation
MiniMax: Video Generation
Suno: Music Generation
GPT Image: Image Generation
ElevenLabs: Voice Conversion
SPEECH: Sing-Voice Conversion

The Semester

One semester, three sprints, three playtests and four faculty reviews. Every date below is fixed.
DateMilestoneWhat Happens
Sep 11QuartersETC review 1 of 4: the project’s first public checkpoint
Sep 25V1 closesThe core loop, playable end to end: record → generate → publish
Sep 29Playtest 137 young K-pop fans (our actual target audience) play V1
Oct 7HalvesETC review 2 of 4: mid-semester
Oct 25V2 closesMusic and MV generation, AI fans and live metrics, branching storylines, the economy
Oct 31Playtest 2Open session at the ETC: a general, mixed audience
Nov 19Playtest 337 young K-pop fans again, on the near-final build
Nov 20SoftsETC review 3 of 4
Nov 22V3 closesFinal feature set and integration
Dec 7FinalsETC review 4 of 4: the final presentation
Dec 11F26 endsPrototype and playbook delivered

Blog

New Articles

  • Week 8 Dev in Progress

    Week 8 Dev in Progress

    TL; DR · · · Writing a character with an AI in the room Our biggest take: The second thing we learned is about structure. It’s the Inside Out model, essentially: a core memory, a belief that grows out of it, and a behaviour that follows from the belief. We’ll use the same order…

  • Week 7 Halves

    Week 7 Halves

    TL; DR · · · Choreography:What a player actually does The choreography feature is four steps. # Step What it is 1 Pick a song From the tracks in the game 2 Line up moves Drag move cards onto a timeline 3 Set the stage A stage theme, and the outfit your idol wears…

  • Week 6 Playtest Round 1

    Week 6 Playtest Round 1

    TL; DR · · · 37 people, 9 provided tablets and phones, A/B test Playtest 1 happened on Sep 29, in Dr. Berbiguier‘s K-pop class. Four things we learned Each of these showed up in more than one independent place: survey, observation sheet, and what people said out loud. · · · So, the…