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Summer Friends Don't Stick Around is a "forever-time" multiplayer game. 

The goal of this game's creation was to immortalize players and give others a chance to play with them "in spirit" even after they are no longer with us. 

In the "Remember Me" mode, players can train a neural network to capture their play style. The output is a data model that can be shared with friends and family. Your playstyle is essentially encoded in the data model.

In the "Remember Them" mode, players can load a data model file and play with them..

Developer note (v1.0): I'm still learning more about neural networks and tweaking them to capture more of how any particular player approaches the game. There is room for improvement. I've encountered a bug where sometimes the saved model doesn't chase the rabbit. In that case, I recommend playing Remember Me mode again to give it another chance

Credits:Ambient Wave 48 (Tribute) by Eroika, a sound created as a tribute to the creator's friend who passed (Freesound - 496757)

City Park Ambiance by Felix.Blume (Freesound - 667060)

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Summer Friends Don't Stick Around.zip 49 MB

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do you have a discord or something like that for bugs?

(i found a bug where in the "remember them" mode the "soul" can leave the map grounds)

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Yeah, my discord is at https://discord.gg/VkXf6FMXEF. I would love to take a look at the issue. Sometimes the neural network might not train with the limited samples and the ghost may not follow the rabbit and instead get stuck on walls but i dont know why it is leaving the bounds of the map. I'll investigate it. Maybe some collision issue.

hey i would want to ask if you would wanna do a collab game, i would love to tell you more about it but i cant join the discord. Can you send a new link?

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hi, please try: https://discord.gg/VkXf6FMXEF I'm too busy to collab at the moment but can share source code for this game and help you understand it better if you need.

i still cant join but its fine

Fixed the link. There was an added period at the end.

I love the concept of this game

Thank you 😊