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title: Composed responses and free text input
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  Players compose a reply or enter it freely; the system interprets its content
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    title: AI Dungeon
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519310/'
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Composed responses and free text input
    description: >-
      Players compose a reply or enter it freely; the system interprets its
      content and form.
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        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed
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      caption: Free text beneath the story in AI Dungeon
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          label: Enter an action in your own words
    tips:
      - Help players clarify their intent when input is not understood.
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  Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on
  2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are
  preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire
  classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and
  editorial review.
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attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
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# Composed responses and free text input

id: dialogue--family-input
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/dialogue--family-input
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/dialogue--family-input/

Players compose a reply or enter it freely; the system interprets its content and form.

## At a glance

![Free text beneath the story in AI Dungeon](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/dialogue-ai-dungeon-01.webp)

[AI Dungeon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519310/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Enter an action in your own words

- Help players clarify their intent when input is not understood.

- [AI Dungeon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519310/)

## How it works

The answer is assembled from elements or entered freely, after which the system interprets the content and form.

## Variants

### Variants and applications

<a id="family-input-variants"></a>

- Answer from fragments. Rule: The player collects a message from available words, phrases or semantic blocks. <a id="variant-input-01"></a>
- Intent plus tone. Rule: The player independently chooses the purpose of the statement and the manner of its utterance. <a id="variant-input-02"></a>
- Substitution of information. Rule: A name, place, time, object or known fact is substituted into the question template. <a id="variant-input-03"></a>
- Entering a keyword. Rule: To refer to a topic, you need to name the recognized word yourself. <a id="variant-input-04"></a>
- Text commands. Rule: The parser understands limited grammar, for example "ask Anna about the key". <a id="variant-input-05"></a>
- Free text. Rule: The system determines the topic and intent of the player's arbitrary phrase. <a id="variant-input-06"></a>
- Voice input. Rule: Recognized speech serves as a way to convey a question, command or answer. <a id="variant-input-07"></a>
- Clarification of what is not understood. Rule: If the input is ambiguous, the interlocutor asks for clarification and offers to correct the message. <a id="variant-input-08"></a>

## Context and limits

Author's working taxonomy compiled for this request. Titles are descriptive; sources confirm individual principles and examples, and not the entire list.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on 2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and editorial review.

- [AI Dungeon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1519310/) (id: source-9d03e465838b74e1)

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