Wanderheart: AI-Powered Gamemaster Platform For Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs)

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CEO at WanderHeart Tyler Wright
WanderHeart
BUSINESS CONTEXT

How can GenAI be used to meaningfully enhance and transform gaming experiences, making them more immersive, adaptive, and engaging?

Entertainment & Gaming Industry

In the Gaming Industry, compelling narratives are a core determinant of user engagement. The challenge lies in maintaining unique player experiences while ensuring consistency with the established storyline and game logic.

Use Case Evaluation

Through the Rapid GenAI Assessment, we evaluated multiple use cases and identified a game-changing opportunity: developing an AI-powered gameplay engine capable of guiding players through an immersive Dungeons & Dragons–style experience.

Primary AWS GenAI Service

The key technical requirement was identifying a model and token strategy capable of retaining long-form narrative memory while remaining cost-efficient. Amazon Bedrock offered the most suitable architecture for balancing context retention, scalability, and affordability.

THE PROBLEM

ENHANCING IMMERSIVE GAMING EXPERIENCES

Wanderheart is developing  an innovative AI Gamemaster platform designed to lead users through an immersive and compelling D&D gameplay experience.
The Wanderheart team had optimization challenges, with a need to deliver a better and more consistent experience for players while balancing costs at scale.

THE SOLUTION

AGENTIC GAMEMASTER

The Agentic Gamemaster solution that Metal Toad designed for WanderHeart uses model routing to execute diverse tasks without compromising the speed or quality of a voice-first gaming experience, while the system responds dynamically, maintains long-term context, and drives the narrative forward. Key AWS technologies: Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3.

THE IMPACT

TRANSFORMING THE WAY GAMES ARE PLAYED

  • Ensures a stable and high-quality player-driven narrative experience.
  • Allows for more freedom and possibilities when creating game scenarios.

  • 8x cost savings without loss of quality with Amazon Nova & intelligent GenAI model routing.

The Amazon Bedrock Advantage

When comparing AWS's GenAI approach to that of its major competitors, several key factors stand out:

  • AWS gives you choice: Unlike Microsoft & Google, on Bedrock you can run over 60 different models.
  • AWS is cost effective: AWS GenAI models run at a fraction
of the price of some of the others.
  • AWS responds quickly: When something new hits the scene, AWS is on top of their game and has integrated all the new models in as quickly.

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BUSINESS PROBLEM

The sales team at ABC was feeling a lot like substitute teachers, bogged down with cumbersome old tech and processes at crucial moments.

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

A clear solution emerged: a single app that the sales team could use with any mobile device or computer

 
IMPACT

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TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

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IMPACT

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TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

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IMPACT

Quickly identified new threats. The ML Log Monitoring solution quickly found two groups of IPs for evaluation. 

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BUSINESS PROBLEM

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TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

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IMPACT

Fox now has in hand the detailed plan they need to make Fox Mississippi a reality.

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BUSINESS PROBLEM

When approaching Metal Toad for a potential partnership, they made it clear that their current website was falling short.

 
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
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IMPACT
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TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
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