High Fantasy Word Explorer

A retro pixel-art word-guessing game powered by AI image generation.

Explore AI-generated high-fantasy scenes using novel-view synthesis, and guess the hidden word each scene depicts. Find 10 words to win.

Demo

Screenshots

Start of a new game	First word found	Deep into a run

How to play

• Scenes are generated by MIRO and rendered with a retro Bayer-dithered pixel aesthetic.
• Navigate with the camera to explore the scene from different angles, powered by OVIE novel-view synthesis.
• Press Tab to open the input field, type your guess, press Enter.
• A correct guess advances to the next scene. A wrong guess costs a life.
• 3 lives total. Find 10 words to win. Press Enter after game-over to replay with a shuffled word set.

Controls

Key	Action
Z	Move forward
S	Move backward
← →	Yaw (turn left / right)
↑ ↓	Pitch (look up / down)
R	Reset camera to origin
Tab	Open / close input field
Enter	Submit guess (or restart after game-over)
Backspace	Delete last character
?	Toggle help overlay
ESC / Q	Close overlay / quit

Requirements

• Linux, NVIDIA GPU with CUDA
• Python 3.12 with a PyTorch venv (see install.sh)
• The OVIE repository cloned locally

Setup

# Clone OVIE alongside this repo (or set OVIE_PATH)
git clone https://github.com/kyutai-labs/ovie ../ovie

# Run the install script (once)
./install.sh

# Launch the game
./run.sh

OVIE_PATH defaults to ../ovie relative to game.py. Override if needed:

OVIE_PATH=/path/to/ovie ./run.sh

Optional arguments

--seed INT      Random seed (default: 3407)
--steps INT     MIRO inference steps (default: 40; lower = faster)
--guidance FLOAT  Guidance scale (default: 7.0)

Example:

./run.sh --steps 50

Model weights

Both models are downloaded automatically from Hugging Face on first run:

• MIRO: nicolas-dufour/miro
• OVIE: kyutai/ovie (revision v1.0)

Weights are cached in ~/.cache/huggingface/.