Detective Duck

What is Detective Duck?

Detective Duck is a 'whodunit' game that experiments with real-time dialogue generation using ChatGPT for educational applied games. The game is designed for &Ranj, a Dutch game studio that specializes in creating serious games. It is the result of my graduation thesis for the Bachelor of Science in Game Development at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Continuing on this work, I wrote a paper titled

Designing Meaningful AI-Generated Dialogue: The Behaviour-Driven Conditional Prompting Framework for Serious Games

which was published to and presented at the European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL) 2025) in Levanger, Norway.

The paper can be read here.

My contributions

Everything!

• Game design
• Art direction and asset creation
• Research and development for the real-time dialogue generation system, leveraging ChatGPT
• Implementation of the dialogue system