Bot Colony
North Side Inc. · 2014 · Voice Control, Robots, Adventure, Indie, Artificial Intelligence
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About Bot Colony
It’s August 2021 and you're recruited by Nakagawa Corp., Japan's leading robot manufacturer. Agrihan, Nakagawa’s private island in the South Pacific was infiltrated. The robots are acting strangely. Agrihan ( Bot Colony) is a Mars testbed staffed mostly by robots - so you'll need to talk to THEM to investigate what happened.
Bot Colony ( www.botcolony.com) is unique in that it's currently the ONLY game on the planet relying on AI-based conversation as the main game mechanic. You speak in English with robots (or type) in order to advance in the game. Bot Colony will appeal to players interested in genre-defining games with novel mechanics. If you enjoy figuring out how to get through to robots, command them through actions and investigate - you'll enjoy Bot Colony. The game is played in an eerie South Pacitic setting where modern architecture and robots contrast with the jungle environment. It integrates adventure, simulation, RPG and puzzles into a unique language-based gameplay with a great atmospheric soundtrack.
You'll get to experience Artificial Intelligence that is currently in the realm of cinematic fantasy in Her, Ex Machina, iRobot, Blade Runner, 2001 A Space Odyssey. It's a challenging and entertaining experience that will make you realize how literally machines process language, and how much we take for granted when we speak with people.
Bot Colony ( www.botcolony.com) is unique in that it's currently the ONLY game on the planet relying on AI-based conversation as the main game mechanic. You speak in English with robots (or type) in order to advance in the game. Bot Colony will appeal to players interested in genre-defining games with novel mechanics. If you enjoy figuring out how to get through to robots, command them through actions and investigate - you'll enjoy Bot Colony. The game is played in an eerie South Pacitic setting where modern architecture and robots contrast with the jungle environment. It integrates adventure, simulation, RPG and puzzles into a unique language-based gameplay with a great atmospheric soundtrack.
You'll get to experience Artificial Intelligence that is currently in the realm of cinematic fantasy in Her, Ex Machina, iRobot, Blade Runner, 2001 A Space Odyssey. It's a challenging and entertaining experience that will make you realize how literally machines process language, and how much we take for granted when we speak with people.
KEY FEATURES
- Type of speak freely and discover the story using your own words. The answers spoken by the robots is generated dynamically. Contrast with typical game storytelling, where canned voice acting is controlled by dialog trees.
- Experience the eerie atmosphere of a South Pacific island featuring ultra modern architecture and robots amid a lush jungle setting. The techno-romantic mood is enhanced by the original music soundtrack of the game.
- Play detective and piece together the events that took place in a house in a 48 hour period by exploring the robot's video observations.
- Work with the robots to scuttle violent sabotage attempts by robot-hating organizations.
- Game sessions are unique to each player: What you say controls how robots react and what they answer. Sessions of other players will have different dialog than your session. Every session is unique.
- Make the game your own: Teach robots new knowledge and new commands.
- Speak or type. The Microsoft Cognitive speech-to-text does an amazing job understanding what you say, irrespective of your accent. When speech-to-text makes mistakes, you can easily correct them. You can combine playing through speech or text according to your preference.
- Inspired by Bot Colony sci-fi novel, a near future industrial espionage thriller by Eugene Joseph. The novel ( available on Amazon Kindle) explores the verbal abilities of future robots and introduces the 5th law of robotics 'do as people do'.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Borderline unplayable, commands barely work, and the game runs like trash.8 found this helpful
Before anything, I'll admit soemthing; I don't understand this gae at all. Very original way to control a character: you have to tell it what to do like in a retro text advanture game, through text or your voice (yes, with possible confidentiality concerns)... except that, the charcter moves in a 3D environment. Sadly, last time I played, the gap between how it works and what it explains was too big, and it wasn't very...it felt cold, too virile in a way. The description allude to a focus on comunication and understanding, but the execution lacks these dimensions. There is a deep story and some psychology, but it all feel dry and outdated (hollywood moral values...) Audiance Not 51% of humanity; The style and tone is one that expludes women. I don't knwo hwo to explain. I love that kind of concepts, I love to play male characters, but this time, it feels like the studio don't give a f* about anyone but male audiance. If that"s on purpose, ojk, it's your game. Do whatever. But says so from the start before we pay for this. Story Are we an AI or a person, are we the player character or someone giving intructions to that character...? The start is very fast and very confus…
Words cant describe how terrible this game is in its current state (keep in mind 10 years in development) and I've played Payday 3. This one is actually funny bad.
Im looking forward to the updates that are coming in the future, at the moment yes the game is frustrating as the bots do some weird things while in task, and the speech is a bit hard to get the bot to understand so i end up going in circles with it, but i look forward to playing the finished version.
Servers have been down for a long time...
I love the premise, but it's too buggy to actually play.
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