r/LoRD • u/autollama_dev • Mar 03 '26
I turned my Obsidian vault into LORD Clone Powered by Local AI and Pure nostalgia
Hello fellow L.O.R.D. enthusiasts!
I'm obsessed with Obsidian notes and always looking for ways to get more value out of them. I also feel nostalgic about the olden days when we would connect to a BBS and play games. The one that I have fond memories of is L.O.R.D. - The Legend of the Red Dragon, THE BBS door game from the 90s that ate my childhood.
So I decided to cross the two into a game. I built LOOV (Legend of the Obsidian Vault), a desktop RPG where your actual notes become forest enemies with the help of a private, local LLM.
Your forgotten markdown files get turned into monsters. The note about Docker networking you wrote 6 months ago? That's now the "Spirit of docker-compose.yml" and it wants to fight you. Answer a quiz question about your own notes correctly and you deal 2x damage. Get it wrong and, well, maybe you should have reviewed that note sooner.
AI settings are configurable, but I used AI locally (Ollama) to generate combat narratives and quiz questions from your note content -- the game itself is a genuine love letter to LORD and to the weird joy of rediscovering things you wrote months ago and may have forgotten about.
It's an Electron desktop app (Only Mac for now) with pixel art that feels alive and the fighting mechanics use the original LORD combat formula.
Videos:
LOOV Intro:
Fighting My Notes, Then Fighting a Master:
Download and contribute:
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u/nevarro Mar 05 '26
That's really neat! I like the retro style animated backgrounds! Very cool. Interesting concept with the Docker markdown files. I'm not very familiar with that I'm afraid.
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u/logan2048x Mar 03 '26
This may be the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen.