{"slug": "good-boy-amnesia-an-ai-detective-game-where-memory-is-the-gameplay", "title": "Good Boy Amnesia: An AI Detective Game where Memory IS the Gameplay 🐶🧠", "summary": "A developer built Good Boy Amnesia, a detective game where an AI agent's memory lifecycle—remember, recall, memify, forget—serves as the core gameplay, visualized through a live 3D knowledge graph in Three.js. Players control Buster, a Golden Retriever, to reconstruct a corrupted memory graph and solve a mystery before noon.", "body_md": "*This is a submission for the *[Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition](https://dev.to/challenges/weekend-2026-08-13)\n\n##\nWhat I Built 🦴\n\n**Good Boy Amnesia** is a detective game built for Dog Days where an AI agent's entire long-term memory lifecycle — `remember → recall → memify → forget`\n\n— **is the gameplay loop**, visualized as a live 3D knowledge graph in Three.js.\n\n###\nThe Story:\n\nYour owner **Dev** left you home alone last night, and you threw a legendary neighborhood puppy party. At 6:00 AM, your memory graph was corrupted. Dev arrives home at **noon (12:00 PM)**, the living room is trashed, and his favorite leather slipper is missing.\n\nYou play **Buster**, a Golden Retriever whose mind is literally a knowledge graph. Reconstruct what happened last night, interrogate the neighborhood animals, purge false rumors, and find Dev's slipper before he walks through the door!\n\n##\nDemo & Screenshots 🎮\n\n-\n**Live Game Demo**: `https://good-boy-amnesia.vercel.app`\n\n*(or your Hugging Face Space URL)*\n-\n**Video Walkthrough**: *(Optional link to your screen recording)*\n\n###\nGameplay Breakdown:\n\n-\n**🔍 Investigate Hotspots**: Explore 6 locations (*Living Room, Backyard Lawn, Bella's Garden Fence, Dog Park, Lou's Oak Tree Stash, and Rooftop Sandbox*).\n-\n**🗂 File Clues (**`remember`\n\n): Committing a fact adds glowing nodes to your live 3D memory graph in real-time.\n-\n**💬 Interrogate Animals**: Chat with **Bella** (the wise cat), **Lou** (the shifty raccoon), **Rev. Rex** (the howling Basset Hound), and **Barnaby** (the hungover pug). The characters read your live graph and react dynamically to your knowledge.\n-\n**🧠 Connect the Dots (**`memify`\n\n): Consolidate stored memories into derived inferences (e.g. realizing the slipper was locked in the treat safe before the party started).\n-\n**🗑 Purge False Leads (**`forget`\n\n): 5 red herrings are hidden in the story. Delete gossip from your memory log to keep your graph clean and win the case!\n-\n**🎯 Tell Dev (**`solve`\n\n): Reconstruct the timeline before noon to win in a burst of victory confetti!\n\n##\nCode Repository ⭐\n\n##\nHow I Built It (Tech Stack) 🛠️", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/good-boy-amnesia-an-ai-detective-game-where-memory-is-the-gameplay", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/reet_singh_ee97da2986538e/good-boy-amnesia-an-ai-detective-game-where-memory-is-the-gameplay-5ap0", "published_at": "2026-08-17 07:04:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 07:12:30.079016+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "generative-ai", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Good Boy Amnesia", "Three.js", "Buster", "Dev", "Bella", "Lou", "Rev. Rex", "Barnaby"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/good-boy-amnesia-an-ai-detective-game-where-memory-is-the-gameplay", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/good-boy-amnesia-an-ai-detective-game-where-memory-is-the-gameplay.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/good-boy-amnesia-an-ai-detective-game-where-memory-is-the-gameplay.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/good-boy-amnesia-an-ai-detective-game-where-memory-is-the-gameplay.jsonld"}}