The yupy only Unforgettable Experiences
- Player input changes narrative design using Generative AI
- Player-AI interactions reshape NPC personalities and behaviors
- Evolving story paths
- Dynamic progression and story development
- Token-based reinforcement learning model
Development
The Paw
Follow a touching journey where every step brings you closer to what matters most. The Paw is an unforgettable experience about finding your way home—and the people (and paws) who make it worth the trip.
The Yellow Wallpaper
A woman is confined to a country estate for a "rest cure" after the birth of her child. Forbidden to write, think, or live as she pleases, she fixates on the room's yellow wallpaper—and the creeping figure she begins to see behind it. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's landmark tale of repression, sanity, and the price of being told you are not ill, only hysterical.
There is no one here
You are alone in an old building, left to sort the case. The files are too clear. The deaths follow a pattern. The handwriting in the margins begins to look like yours—and the last empty place in the corridor is the one where you are standing. The only thing left is a blank page, and a pen.
The Mission
YUPY Game Lab is a passionate team reimagining narrative-driven games. We address the constrained freedom of traditional choice-based storytelling by integrating generative AI to unlock truly responsive narratives. Our technology enables player decisions to meaningfully shape story progression, allowing plot beats to emerge organically from each player’s intent rather than a fixed line of clues.
We are developing an AI model that dynamically makes narrative design decisions based on player behavior and interaction. Using the classic horror story The Monkey’s Paw as our prototype, we are currently demonstrating early-stage adaptive narrative generation.
We aim to create a player driven agentic architecture that plays a higher tier decision-making role, authorized to generate unique narratives, causal explanations, and dynamic progression. YUPY is not creating a visual novel, but a series of unique experiences. Our vision is to make your vision come true, and in your vision, the sky is the limit.
Meet The Team
Polly Yan
CMU ETC Graduate
To explore GenAI in plot-rich story games and uplift the blocks in choice-matter genres.
Jason Qiu
CMU ETC Graduate
As GenAI develops, I am interested in exploring the possibilities this could bring to the entire industry and my career.
Jackson Ye
Ph.D. Candidate in ML/AI systems
I want to design a game where the player can drown in their own poop on day one...game over.