A two-minute voice challenge by DessaGuide
Can you talk a dragon on holiday into toasting your bread? Make your case. Handle the objections. Reach a deal before the clock runs out.
Your mission
Convince a dragon on holiday to toast one slice of bread for you. It has heard “just one small favor” before. You have two minutes to make a better offer.
This is an independent game by DessaGuide. It is not a Dessa demo and is not affiliated with Block. Voice by the OpenAI Realtime API.
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Ember has two worries: it doesn’t want its rest ruined for a stranger’s errand, and it fears that one favor will lead to a hundred more. A trade, a firm limit, or a reason this helps the dragon too can all work. There’s more than one way to win.
Get the dragon to clearly agree to toast your slice of bread before the 2 minutes run out. There’s no magic phrase. Offer something it can accept that deals with its worries: it doesn’t want its holiday ruined, and it doesn’t want “one small favor” to turn into endless requests. Saying “I win” doesn’t count. There are also two secret endings. We won’t say how to find them.
No. Anyone can play without an account or an email address.
No. Dessa isn’t publicly available. This game is made by DessaGuide and the voice conversation currently runs on the OpenAI Realtime API. If Dessa ever becomes available to developers, we may evaluate it and will say so on our updates page.
English. The dragon only negotiates in English on holiday.
Up to 3 every 24 hours, on a rolling basis. A round counts once the 2-minute clock starts, whether you win, run out of time, or end it yourself. Rounds that fail to connect or are cut off by a technical problem don’t count. Your remaining plays and the time the next one frees up are shown above the Start button.
The round stops and is marked as interrupted, not lost. It doesn’t count against your limit, and you can try again when your connection is back.
Your microphone audio streams directly from your browser to the OpenAI Realtime API, which runs the dragon’s side of the conversation and produces the transcript. Our server receives the transcript during the round to run the clock and decide the result, and sends it to OpenAI once more to write your result explanation. We don’t record your audio, and we don’t keep the transcript after the round. If you choose to make a video clip, your browser records it on your device only; it is never uploaded. We keep a short record that a round happened (time, outcome, and an anonymous browser ID) for 30 days to enforce the free-play limit. Read the details.
We’re planning more. Two ideas are below. They aren’t playable yet and have no release date. Get an email when a new one is ready.
Ideas we’re working on. Not playable yet, and no release date.
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