Down The Memory Lane

🌊 Down the Memory Lane 🌊

A game between journaling and archaeology of the self

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What It Is

Down the Memory Lane is a gamified, (local) AI-driven journaling experience. Players talk to The Pond, a calm and curious being who helps them process daily experiences, thoughts, and emotions through reflection.

Each conversation turns your words into a symbolic artifact  that becomes part of your personal pond.

How It Works 🎮

1. Offer a Memory: name a thought, feeling, or moment, and release it into the Pond.
2. Reflect Together: the Pond responds with short reflective prompts that invite deeper meaning.
3. Archive the Moment: decide whether your memory should float (accept), sink (let go), or hold (keep close).

Over time, your pond becomes a living landscape of memories.

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Features

• Three Levels of Reflection: Descriptive, Analytic, Reflexive
• Symbolic visual feedback (ripples, light, motion)
• Memory artifacts you can revisit or release
• Unity + Gradio + LM Studio integration
• AI-assisted pixel art avatars (via ComfyUI)

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For Whom

Designed for anyone who enjoys journaling, mindfulness, or games that invite reflection!

This is a reflective experience, not therapy. Pause if uncomfortable.

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Built With

• Unity 6.0 for the game engine
• Gradio backend for AI conversation and memory management
• LM Studio running meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct locally
• ComfyUI (SD 1.5) for stylized pixel art generation

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Team

• Tom Tucek: Unity Implementation
• Mathias Lux : Concept and PR
• Kseniia Harshina: Concept, back-end development
• John Brown : Mentorship

University of Klagenfurt, Austria · Robert Gordon University, UK