Where is Julian Morrow - A Conversational Mystery powered by Inworld AI, Twilio, and Google STT

Using Inworld AI's character engine, we'll create a conversational game that players can access by making a phone call. Role playing as Richard Papen from The Secret History, the player will call Julian Morrow, their estranged ex-professor. The goal is to get Julian to reveal his address, but Julian won't divulge his location unless he trust you...

Prerequisites

• An Inworld AI account
• A Twilio Account
• A Google Cloud Account
• Installed ngrok

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Setup

1. Create Julian Morrow in your Inworld AI account, making sure to give him a Goal where he will reveal his address.
2. Set up the Google Project and retrieve the service account key
   1. Set up a new GCP Project
   2. Enable the Google Speech-To-Text API for that project
   3. Create a service account.
   4. Download a private key as JSON.
3. Modify the .env.sample file to include the path to your JSON service account key and save it as a .env file
4. Add the Twilio authorization credentials as ACCOUNT_SID and AUTH_TOKEN values to the .env file
5. Add the Inworld API key as INWORLD_KEY to the .env file
6. Update the sceneData variable in the index.js file to point to your own scene
7. Update the workspaceName variable in the index.js file to point to your own workspace
8. Update the data attribute in the sendTrigger function to point to your trigger
9. Install the dependencies with $ npm install
10. Start ngrok with $ ngrok http 8080
11. Buy a phone number in Twilio and set its Voice Webhook to the URL provided by ngrok
12. Start the server with $ npm start
13. Call the number and try to convince Julian to give up his address!