Agence
Transitional Forms · 2020 · Artificial Intelligence, VR, Simulation, Multiple Endings, Experimental
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About Agence
Agence places the fate of artificially intelligent creatures in your hands. Will you help to maintain their peaceful existence, or throw them into a state of chaos?
A dynamic film that combines cinematic storytelling, artificial intelligence, and your interactions, Agence is never the same twice.
So, will you interfere with intelligent life? As intelligent creatures, the Agents will respond in unexpected ways.
They could maintain their harmonious existence, or they could become aggressive with one another. Some could even fall off of their planet into the infinite abyss below. You’ll also notice the Agents express fear, curiosity, boredom, or excitement using vocalizations and facial reactions.
In the Agents’ universe, you can:
A dynamic film that combines cinematic storytelling, artificial intelligence, and your interactions, Agence is never the same twice.
So, will you interfere with intelligent life? As intelligent creatures, the Agents will respond in unexpected ways.
They could maintain their harmonious existence, or they could become aggressive with one another. Some could even fall off of their planet into the infinite abyss below. You’ll also notice the Agents express fear, curiosity, boredom, or excitement using vocalizations and facial reactions.
In the Agents’ universe, you can:
- Watch emergent narratives unfold as you wield your power from planet to planet;
- Plant magical flowers that can impact the Agents’ behaviour and change the way they interact with each other;
- Move the Agents around to interfere in their existence. You can separate them from each other to avoid conflict, help them achieve balance, save them from falling off the planet, or fling them into the abyss;
- Rotate the universe to observe the Agents, and see how the narrative plays out from different vantage points;
- Add Agents into the experience that have been pre-trained by human engineers; using reinforcement learning—a system of goals and rewards that allow the Agents to think and act on their own.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I like the idea, but while I can interact with them, a lot of their behaviour seems erratic and doesn't seem to be impacted by my interactions except at the most superficial level. The mechanics are very opaque. I'm not even sure what half of the achievements mean. It seems more like an intellectual exercise in ML/AI and so I'd probably find a paper outlining the behind the scenes more interesting. As it is I just use it like a chill game when I don't want to deal with adrenaline, commitment or thinking to hard. In hindsight I probably wouldn't pay for it again.2 found this helpful
I read an article about Agence before I bought it, and I thought the concept sounded interesting. I knew this was an interactive movie with AI elements and not a video game, but I was hoping for more of an experience. What it provides is extremely limited and not really worth much. Unless the developers make major enhancements, which their comments indicate are unlikely, don't bother. It's just not very interesting.2 found this helpful
I found this to be an interesting experience and well worth the small asking price. Definitely put me in that contemplating the notion of an infinite universe and the meaning of our existence within it. That said I am coming from a machine learning and AI programming background. Not to mention I'm a fan of short artsy VR experiments. That doesn't necessarily mean you need that background to appreciate Agence, my 6 year old daughter found this fun as well. I do think the game would've been better off if after a each generation a small explanation of what an agent's role was. That would've given incentive to observe multiple generations and note the results. I think that is the point of the game. After a few achievements popped up and I realized what their roles were it was subsequent generations and interactions were more meaningful. All said and done worth $3 though.1 found this helpful
This is not a game. Horrible controls. Zero onboarding. I don't know what to do and mostly, I don't care. This is just some bad tech demo trying to sound deeper than it is. I'm not petty enough to refound a 4$ game, but this "game" is not respecting my time. Do something else, go take a walk, watch paint dry.1 found this helpful
Its okay. I think it could be improved, but it's an interesting idea at least.1 found this helpful
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