Is this a feasible mod idea? Using an LLM to chronicle your games

[GhengisCat]

Hey everyone. This is an idea to increase the immersion and the fun of wrapping up a game. None of us are playing Civ expecting a fancy, cinematic ending. However, I would venture to guess that a lot of us here are big readers and, like me, enjoy spending time on Wikipedia reading about history. So with that in mind, I think it would be really cool if there was some way to use an LLM to create a historical chronicle of your civilization from start to finish. If you could feed it data from your game--the scores, the demographics, the changes in the world map, your wars, your alliances and trade agreements, the workings of the World Congress--take all of that data and use it to create a unique historical narrative of your game that you could then download and revisit any time.

I know the LLM would be able to handle creating such a document quite easily. What I'm not sure about is if it would be able to integrate with the Civ 5, or how you would turn that raw game data into promptings for the AI. Would it be possible to integrate something like this into the game itself?

 

[abulafia77]

Check out https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/beta-vox-deorum-0-5-2-play-civilization-with-llms.701133/

The "replay" function already creates some longform text output.

 

[johnchen]

Yes, it is definitely possible. If you enable VD, even without any LLM player, you can still get the full stream of data from the game (since I need to use it for research purposes).

And it is not only possible. What we can do is even to generate real-time narratives of the game, like a newspaper in Victoria 2 (I can't state how much I loved about the design, although a while later I found it repetitive).

But I need some more hands to work on the project to get there soon enough

 

[johnchen]

I'd love it if some modder could work on those ideas... and test it out. I know how to implement each part, but I don't have quite enough time (even with Claude Code to implement it). Please DM me if you are interested!!