Pilsudski

Pilsudski is a small API.AI webhook I wrote in my sophomore year of high school for a World War I class project: a virtual dialogue with the Kaiser. The class was asked to bring a WWI figure to life with code, and I co-led ours with a classmate.

Our Kaiser wants a war, and your job is to talk him out of it. The webhook is the game logic. Every thing you say moves a "temperament" score up or down. It starts at 10, and at 0 he declares war. Get it to 20 and he decides a war may not be the best course of action after all. Say the same thing twice and he calls you out for repeating yourself. The responses live in a config file, so anyone setting up their own character could rewrite them without touching the code, and a text-to-speech step plays each reply out loud in a browser page.

It's named after the leader of the Polish troops in WWI. The Denver Post wrote about the project on February 21, 2017. The project is retired now (the README says so), but there were two videos made for it: the three-minute media pitch, and a tutorial for connecting Pilsudski to API.AI.