I’ve been building Dungeon-1, a Zork-style text adventure that uses LLMs for narration and NPC behavior, with deliberate constraints to avoid turning into an infinite chat simulator.

For transparency: I reused the original Zork map as a structural scaffold, but replaced the setting, narrative tone, and systems. The goal was to focus on AI-driven narration, failure states, and cost-aware constraints rather than world design from scratch.