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Interactive storytelling · 2023

Talk to a Little Martian

The first Little Martians interactive storytelling experiment, made with Gene Kogan in 2023.

An experimental app based on language models with personas, running on Eden. You typed a question and a voice answered as the character, while their video kept repeating on a loop. The previous answers stayed on screen as text, the character’s memory.

Below, four characters answer the same question: how did humans become Martians?

Nebulana The first Little Martian I made, and the one I presented at most of the events.
Mycologus
Cabloclus
Lumis

Recorded on a phone at app.mars.college, September 2023. With sound.

Where it was shown

Where it went next: Verdelis.world ⇢The Little Martians ⇢Eden ⇢

The seven movements

01 Visible Memories02 Maurício Hora03 Silk Roads04 Ethnomathematics & Ethnocomputing05 Same Putumi06 Mars College07 Little Martians