Welcome to the Garden of the Forgotten Prompt
This is a text-based adventure game designed to help you learn about Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK). You will build an autonomous AI agent that can play the game for you!
Just want to look around? Play the game manually first.
What Is a Text Adventure?
If you're new to the genre, a text adventure is an interactive story where you are the main character. You explore a world described in text, and you interact with it by typing commands such as move north, examine the chest, or take the golden key. It's a game of imagination, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Genre-defining examples of text-adventures include Zork (1977), Colossal Cave Adventure (1976), and Adventureland (1978).
In The Garden of the Forgotten Prompt, you'll navigate ancient ruins, uncover secrets, and manipulate your environment to progress. You'll need to pay close attention to the descriptions to find clues, collect items, and figure out how to use them to overcome obstacles.
About
The Garden of the Forgotten Prompt was created by Wietse Venema, an engineer on the Google Cloud Run team.
Inspired by a love for classic text adventures, this project provides a rich, text-based environment for AI agents to parse, understand, and navigate. It is a playground for learning agent development.
To read more about Wietse's work on AI agents, cloud infrastructure, and developer workflows, visit his blog.