i made this for you is an interactive virtual experience that generates unique, personalized virtual worlds for visitors based on their inputs. Visitors begin the first-person virtual experience by answering a series of questions and providing other forms of user input. The underlying engine then analyzes and uses these inputs to create unique, personalized 3D worlds for visitors to explore.

i made this for you allows for over 800 unique world permutations. Variables affected include the landscape, topography, weather, skies, home decor, buildings, lighting and more. The questions and corresponding answer text were partly inspired and influenced by Adam King’s Talk To Transformer, built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-2 machine learning model.

This work comes from a longstanding interest in creating artistic experiences that connect with visitors on an emotional level. One way of achieving this emotional impact, I thought, was to personalize the experience for each visitor.

In future iterations, I hope to implement other forms of visitor input, such as recorded sound and long-form text, and further develop the worlds themselves.