cnnmon/suitors ·
"The Suitors and the AI Princess" is a multiplayer digital party game where players compete as suitors trying to win the hand of an AI princess. Players must infer and adapt to her secret tastes across 3 trials. The highest-scoring suitor is crowned king. The princess's hidden preference string is then revealed, and the winner may (secretly!) make up to 20 character edits before the next reign. The string must stay within 80 characters. Scores reset and the winner rejoins under a new random name. As AI evaluation pervades social media, workplace hiring, and everyday decision-making, this game explores how opaque evaluators shape the people trying to satisfy them. It also asks who gets to define the values those evaluators enforce in the first place, and what happens when those values are passed down through a game of telephone. The game is meant to be played with friends or strangers: experiment in a private lobby or compete on a rapid-fire public stage. Design, art, and snippets of co