Aphae

AI Agent Office Simulation — A top-down 2D pixel art game where AI-driven agents with distinct personalities live together in an office. You observe, rearrange the environment, and watch emergent social behavior unfold: friendships, rivalries, romances, grief, and drama.

Built with Godot 4.6 (GDScript). Bundled LLM for offline AI decisions.

Drama strikes, and an agent cuts away to the confessional booth. Every line is generated live
from that character's personality and memories — nothing here is scripted.

Agents living their own lives	Producer panel — nudge, interview, plant a rumour

Features

• AI-Powered Agents — Each agent has a unique procedurally generated personality (Big Five traits), appearance, and backstory. An LLM drives their decisions, conversations, and memories. A rich heuristic fallback ensures the game works without any LLM at all.
• Emergent Relationships — Agents form friendships, rivalries, romantic interests, and social groups organically based on personality compatibility and shared experiences.
• Deep Memory — Agents remember past conversations, events, and relationships. Memories influence future decisions and dialogue.
• Life Simulation — Agents age through life stages (young → adult → senior → dying), develop health conditions, and eventually die. Other agents grieve based on relationship closeness.
• Drama Director — A RimWorld-inspired storyteller paces random life events (arguments, promotions, secret admirers, office crises) for narrative satisfaction.
• Conversations — Multi-turn dialogues driven by LLM or heuristic fallback, flavored by personality traits, recent memories, and emotional state.
• Confessional Cam — Reality-TV style talking heads. When drama strikes, an involved agent cuts away to the confessional booth and reacts in first person, in their own voice. A host narrator delivers day recaps as tension builds. Agents remember what they said on camera, so a confession or a bit of trash talk colors how they behave afterward. Press C for the full confessional history.
• Episode Recap — Press E for a shareable Markdown writeup of your run: the top storylines, the best confessional quotes, and the full cast. Export it to a file, or read it on the game-over screen when the office finally falls silent.
• Producer Controls — Press P to stop being a spectator. Nudge an agent toward something — and watch them refuse if they're disagreeable or busy, because a nudge is a suggestion, not a command. Interview them and get an answer in their own voice, drawn from what they actually remember. Or plant a rumour, true or not, and let it colour how they treat someone.
• God Mode — Place and remove objects, spawn/remove agents, and reshape the office environment.
• Desktop Pet Mode — Shrink the window to a transparent, borderless, always-on-top overlay with 3 agents living on your desktop.
• 24 Achievements — Discovery, relationship, community, and milestone achievements to track your sandbox's progress.
• Save System — 5 save slots with automatic backups and corruption recovery. Auto-saves every 5 game-days.
• Procedural Everything — Sprites, audio, and personalities are all generated at runtime. No external art or sound assets required.

Getting Started

Requirements

• Godot 4.6 or later

Run from Editor

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/rsanandres/aphae.git
cd aphae

# Open in Godot
godot --editor project.godot

Press F5 or click Play to launch.

Run from CLI

godot --path /path/to/aphae

LLM Setup (Optional)

The game works fully without any LLM — agents use a personality-driven heuristic brain with 200+ diverse dialogue lines.

For LLM-enhanced gameplay, install Ollama and pull a model:

ollama pull smollm2:1.7b

Configure the Ollama endpoint in Settings > LLM from the main menu. The game auto-detects Ollama at localhost:11434.

Controls

Right-click anywhere for the context menu.

Architecture

19 autoload singletons orchestrated through a global EventBus (~40 signals):

EventBus ← TimeManager ← Config ← SettingsManager
    ↓
AgentManager → LLMManager → GameManager → ConversationManager
    ↓
DramaDirector → EventManager → SaveManager → GroupManager
    ↓
Narrator → ConfessionalDirector → PlayerDirector → AudioManager → AchievementManager → TutorialManager → SteamManager

Agent Pipeline

Think Tick (5s round-robin)
    → Brain (LLM or Heuristic)
        → Decision (idle / use object / talk to agent)
            → State Machine (IDLE → DECIDING → WALKING → INTERACTING/TALKING)
                → Needs decay, memory formation, relationship updates

Key Directories

License

All rights reserved. This is a personal project by @rsanandres.