In this guide, you will learn how to use OpenAI's "chat" API to generate an endless text adventure game on the PyPortal family of devices; the PyPortal Titano is recommended for its larger screen.

By providing a suitable prompt to OpenAI, it will offer a fictional adventure where the next choice can be made on the PyPortal touchscreen. This choice, along with some of the previous text, is fed back to the API to get the result of the action. Because of the random factor in the text ChatGPT generates, and the branching choices, it's unlikely that two games would ever be the same.

Ultimately the "adventure" is not pre-planned and frequently makes unjustifiable creative leaps, but the author has found it fun to play with anyway.

If the "Zorque Mansion" scenario doesn't interest you, create a scenario of your choice by writing a sentence or two in natural human language describing it; no complicated coding is needed to tell a sci-fi story instead, or even to play in French instead of English!

Photos in this guide show the PyPortal Titano with the 3D printed "retro case". Check out the full guide for that 3D printed project.

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