Doodle Crafter Prototype

Utilizing the power of a small, local, ethically sourced neural network, as you draw pixels on an Easel, it selects which item you want to craft.  Your doodles become your recipes.  Ink is the only resource.

This prototype is a proof of concept that there still is healthy and socially acceptable routes to use AI in games development, and they can be used to make even more unique mechanics.  This one runs WITHOUT INTERNET, and is NOT A GENERATIVE AI.  It is an inference network, meaning it cannot chain its own processing to generate any images or text.  It merely selects a category, via image recognition (computer vision).

This project was created alongside a Disseration for a Bachelor's Science in Games Design and Programming, focusing on how usable the idea could get.  It is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ChpJIRScCy7k011Mz5eOE7NS5yfpeFaV/edit?usp=sh...

The image recognition data was ethically sourced using data sets provided by Google, Quick, Draw!: googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset: Documentation on how to access and use the Quick, Draw! Dataset.