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title: Read The Room
emoji: 👀
colorFrom: yellow
colorTo: yellow
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 6.16.0
python_version: '3.13'
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
tags:
- track:wood
- sponsor:openai
- sponsor:modal
- achievement:offgrid
- achievement:offbrand
- achievement:llama
- achievement:sharing
- achievement:fieldnotes
Track 2: Read the Room
Play here
You're a player in a situation where each character has an agenda and an opinion of everyone else, including you. You talk your way to a goal. The inspiration is text adventures RPGs like Zork crossed with social deduction games like Avalon and Werewolf. The social dynamic is the game - I've always wished videogame dialogues gave me more options to explore. Traditional games have always been constrained in this and current AI games dodge the social element: they usually focus on one character, or fixed characters on rails. So I built a game with multiple AIs reacting to each other and especially you (the player)
Anyone can publish a scenario (optional but recommended scene picture) and play what others shared
Merit Badges
Off the grid
The app makes zero network requests of its own - art and font are bundled and inlined. Point RTR_API_BASE at a local llama.cpp/vLLM and it runs fully offline (the hosted Space points it at a Modal GPU instead)
Off-Brand
The default Gradio doesn't work well for a game, so I gave it some style with a custom front-end
Llama champion
Llama.cpp is the canon way to play the game - start a server locally and wire it up. I playtested with Qwen3.6-27B (Q8_K_XL gguf from unsloth)
Sharing is Caring
Playthrough traces - raw prompt and completions are available. You can use 🐞 export function to see what happened each turn - what fed into the LLM and what the response was. Here is one: Ilia-Iliev/read-the-room-traces
Field Notes
More details in my blogpost