First Itch io Release

Hakawati is now on itch.io!

After months of development, Hakawati is finally available here on itch.io. If you ever wanted a local AI adventure-story client, felt like you're overpaying for subscriptions, or wanted to experiment with Stateful Ai adventures, this is

Why Hakawati?

Most AI storytelling tools are either locked behind subscriptions, require you to use models, or store your data on someone else's server. Hakawati offers the following:

• Bring your own AI - Use cloud providers like OpenRouter or NanoGPT, local runners like Ollama or LM Studio, or anything with an OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint. 
  • Use any model.
  • Pay only for what you use.
• You control your data - Everything is stored locally in a SQLite database on your machine. 
• Free and open source - GPL v3 licensed. Check out the code on Github.

What's Included

This release includes builds for Windows (.msi), macOS (.dmg), and Linux (.AppImage) for the latest version v0.9.0. The app comes with built-in presets and guides to help you setup providers, a quickstart wizard to jump straight into a tale, and a scenario builder for creating scenarios (Templates for tales) that you can reuse or share with others!

Early Access Disclaimer

The application is still in early development, the UI might change, you may run into some bugs, GM mode is particularly still experimental. That said, I've played quite a bi

If you run into issues or have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment or open an issue on GitHub.

A Note About Windows

The windows build is still not signed as I am yet to find a sane and economical way to sign windows builds that integrates with my build pipeline, so you may get windows warnings about "Unknown Publisher" when installing. I hope to resolve this eventually. If you are concerned, all builds and file uploads are automated and can be viewed in the "Actions" section of the Github repo. This applies only to the windows build, the macOS build is signed and notarized.

Thanks for checking it out!