The Songs of Maldoror

You see that, when one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies. The end excuses the means.

The Songs of Maldoror is the upcoming souls-like ARPG, full of blood, gore, blasphemy and 19th-century French poetry.

Isidore Lucien Ducasse, better known as Count Lautreamont, was censored and almost unknown during his lifetime. His legacy was rediscovered in the early XX century. His most infamous creation (and in some way alter ego) was Maldoror, a blasphemous louse-ridden evil-doer who hated God and the Man.

Lautreamont used a writing technique called “psychography”, also known as “automatic writing”, which created very surrealist images, sometimes funny and sometimes frightening.

We want to reproduce it using the most advanced AI technologies available. All the dialogues, in-game texts and even the narrative will be AI-generated.

Are you not intrigued yet? Just look, the following text was created using OpenAI’s GPT-3 without any additional human touch.

The game is based on the first verses of “The Song of Maldoror”. The world of Maldoror is dark, cruel, and irrational. The world is full of pain and suffering. The world, though, is beautiful. The world is full of life. Maldoror is all about this contrast.
Maldoror is not a typical hero. He is not the sort of character who would fight for the good of the world. He is the evil incarnate. He is the opposite of everything righteous. He is the opposite of everything beautiful. He is the opposite of everything good. Maldoror is the opposite of everything the player would expect.
Maldoror is not a hero. Maldoror is not a normal person. Maldoror is not even human.
Maldoror is a monster. The world around him is equally monstrous. The player will be able to see it from the eyes of a monster. The player will be able to see it from the eyes of a monster.
Maldoror is not a hero. He will not be able to find any meaning in the world around him. He will not be able to make the world a better place. He will not be able to redeem himself. The world is irrational and cruel. It will not change because of some good deeds. It is good that way. It is evil that way.
Maldoror will not be able to find any meaning in the world around him. He will not be able to make the world a better place. He will not be able to redeem himself. Maldoror will not be able to redeem himself.

Are you intrigued now? Or probably afraid? We are very, very afraid.