Video: Jo Franchetti – RoleplAI

Finally Jo Franchetti made it to beyond tellerrand. She came to Berlin in 2025 and took the audience with her talk “RoleplAI”.

You can find her talk, like all the other talks, in our YouTube channel, as well as here and on her beyond tellerrand speaker profile.

The full transcription of his presentation can be found here.

Slides are also available here.

RoleplAI

In 2025 it’s easy to think of “yet another chatbot” when you think about AI, but gaming has long been at the forefront of artificial intelligence and content generation. From the earliest applications of randomisation in roguelikes, to procedurally generated universes in games like Elite and No Mans Sky, players are used to algorithmic content adding challenge, variety and fun to their games.

In this talk Jo experiments with using hybrid Procedural Generation and modern transformer models to create narrative storytelling for games that not only plays well, but still feels intentional, human, and engaging.

She’ll cover techniques for content generation that both use and constrain our models to make worlds that make sense – that you could, of course, shift to other non-gaming mediums.

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More information about Jo Franchetti on her beyond tellerrand Speaker profile

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