OpenAI: Pages Unwritten — Build a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
Build a playable choose-your-own-adventure visual novel with the OpenAI API. Add a storyteller, branching choices, scene backgrounds with gpt-image-1, story-arc tracking, and streaming — one exercise at a time.
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About This Course
Build a fully playable web-based visual novel powered by the OpenAI API. You'll start with a complete Flask game shell title screen, genre picker, choice rendering, page-flip UI and progressively wire up OpenAI to bring it alive. Each exercise adds a new capability: a storyteller that writes scene narration, structured-output choice branches, AI-generated scene backgrounds via gpt-image-1, plot-arc tracking with ending detection, and streaming narration with compressed long-term memory. By the end you'll have an infinitely replayable choose-your-own-adventure across five genres, plus practical experience with text generation, structured outputs, image generation, streaming, and context-window management.
Course Curriculum
3 Lessons
Pages Unwritten Lab 1 — Storyteller and Branching Choices
Wire up the OpenAI client to a working Flask visual-novel shell. In this first lab you'll build a storyteller system prompt that returns live narration, then upgrade to JSON-mode structured output so each scene returns both prose and a fresh list of branching choices.
Pages Unwritten Lab 2 — Images and Story Arc
Pick up where Lab 1 left off — the storyteller and branching choices are already wired in. In this lab you'll generate per-scene background art with gpt-image-1 and extend the JSON schema so the model tracks plot flags, three-act structure, and detects natural endings.
Pages Unwritten Lab 3 — Streaming, Memory, and Voice
Pick up the visual novel from Lab 2 with the storyteller, choices, scene art, and ending detection already in place. In this final lab you'll stream narration token-by-token with bounded memory compression, then add voiced narration with the OpenAI Speech (TTS) API mapped per genre.
This course includes:
- 24/7 AI Instructor Support
- Live Lab Environments
- 3 Hands-on Lessons
- Completion Badge
Earn Your Badge
Complete all lessons to unlock the Pages Unwritten — Visual Novel Architect achievement badge.
Pages Unwritten — Visual Novel Architect
Awarded for completing Pages Unwritten, a streaming visual-novel built on the OpenAI API — chat completions, JSON-mode structured output, gpt-image-1 generation, story-arc tracking, streaming, and memory compression.
Skills You'll Earn
Complete all lessons in this course to earn this badge