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About This Game 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.KEY FEATURESType 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'. 1075eedd30 Title: Bot ColonyGenre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early AccessDeveloper:North SidePublisher:North SideRelease Date: 16 Jun, 2014 Bot Colony FULL bot colony review. bot colony giant bomb. bot colony steam. pulsar lost colony bot inventory. bot colony walkthrough. bot colony game. bot colony free download. bot colony download. pulsar lost colony bot guide. pulsar lost colony bot setup. bot colony gameplay Cons:- Confusing controls, due to skipping through overly long tutorial.- Didn't respond properly to my voice- Not very immersive- Graphics are lackingPros: - Interesting concept.Don't recommend. Sorry :l. The concept is really interesting: you can communicate with robots by voice or by text. Each robots have their own memories and experiences. This particularity give you multiples way to finish a “mission” and helps to increase the length of the game :)Sadly the server used by the game will soon be shut down because they didn’t sell enough copy, hopefully they will find a solution.If you manage to grab a copy play it and spread the words this will help North Side and show to others studio that games like this one have a potential. To conclude, the game is fun to play and it's really rewarding when the robots understand you :D. The game has unique concept and mechanics, though some robots seem to be stubborn or plain stupid, it varies from fun to frustrating to try to communitcate with them properly. Team put a great effort and a lot of time in this game, so it's definitely worth a try, especially for its price. Keep in mind that game requires some intermediate English knowledge.. In the first time i posted this i was a bit agitated and so i apologise for this.I changed this post with a different perspective.The idea of using voice commands and/or type commands, has a lot of potential.To me the game still feels unfinished as it was a long time ago.Mind that the game is still in early access so give it a chance.(I was hoping it would have been finished by now)I was missing the options to be able to change the graphics further.The I.A. learning ability is a great factor.Sometimes the bot doesn't understand what i ment, but that has a funny side aswell.Sometimes it feels like im lost on what to do or how to do so. (i was waiting for a popup bar of sorts to help me out a bit).As it stands right now, (Mind the time of date that i posted this please).I dont say "dont buy it", but i do say:If you are interested in a game where you are able to use voice commands or type commands, Then try it out! its still in early access so there are flaws ofcouse. Will try again in six months or so.As i do i will chance the review from time to time.I hope this helps out for the person/person's that develop this game.. I bought Bot Colony a few years ago and I don't regret it even though the game is still in early access and probably will be for some time. This game is something completely different and unique. The developers of this game have succeeded in bringing to the market some completely new game mechanics that other companies are just dreaming about. They have come up with their own new AI mechanics for this game and made them part of the gameplay.I would recommend this game for people who:- Like games with new and unique approaches, new experiences- Like games\/genres with a bit slower gameplay (compared to fast paced action games)- Like to support a small company that works hard to start a completely new kind of genre of video games that will bring the whole industry forward- Are interested in AI, robotics, technology or scifi- Are interested\/prepared to play around a bit with robots and learn to communicate with them (Isn't really hard but not recommended for the most inpatient players or those that expect perfect AI that will be able to communicate with you like another human, the technology isn't really at that stage yet)- Are interested in playing a game with a lot to offer but that is still a work in progress and rough around the edges in some partsThe game is amazing as it is but would be even more great if the devs find a new publisher who will see the real potential of this game\/genre and the ambition and skills of these developers so we would be able to enjoy even more of their work in the future! There is no limit to the potential this genre and game series has with the right amount of work and money, I believe the technologies in the game will continue getting better and better with time. I believe this game is ahead of it's time in many ways, in the future there will probably be more games that attempt to add similar mechanics to their games. Right now this is the best you can find and a game worth playing if you are interested in AI or games that offer new and unique experiences.. I bought Bot Colony a few years ago and I don't regret it even though the game is still in early access and probably will be for some time. This game is something completely different and unique. The developers of this game have succeeded in bringing to the market some completely new game mechanics that other companies are just dreaming about. They have come up with their own new AI mechanics for this game and made them part of the gameplay.I would recommend this game for people who:- Like games with new and unique approaches, new experiences- Like games\/genres with a bit slower gameplay (compared to fast paced action games)- Like to support a small company that works hard to start a completely new kind of genre of video games that will bring the whole industry forward- Are interested in AI, robotics, technology or scifi- Are interested\/prepared to play around a bit with robots and learn to communicate with them (Isn't really hard but not recommended for the most inpatient players or those that expect perfect AI that will be able to communicate with you like another human, the technology isn't really at that stage yet)- Are interested in playing a game with a lot to offer but that is still a work in progress and rough around the edges in some partsThe game is amazing as it is but would be even more great if the devs find a new publisher who will see the real potential of this game\/genre and the ambition and skills of these developers so we would be able to enjoy even more of their work in the future! There is no limit to the potential this genre and game series has with the right amount of work and money, I believe the technologies in the game will continue getting better and better with time. I believe this game is ahead of it's time in many ways, in the future there will probably be more games that attempt to add similar mechanics to their games. Right now this is the best you can find and a game worth playing if you are interested in AI or games that offer new and unique experiences. Love Stories All Ages Released: The new version of Negligee: Love Stories, releases today, it has been specially created so that there will be no region restrictions so that anyone can purchase and play the game on Steam.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1002100/Check it out now as it releases in less than an hours time.. Patch: Good News and Bad News: Bad news first: our new speech recognition worked beautifully – but because of a misconfiguration with Microsoft Cognitive Services, it only worked for a very short period! We got over some hurdles with the configuration and just published a patch which will allow you to benefit from the more advanced technology, much more reliably. We urge you to download this patch ASAP.Remember, hit Enter, speak, then hit Enter again to send the text equivalent of your speech to our server. You’ll notice waves appearing over the mic icon when the game is listening. You can also click the mic icon, or click anywhere in the text box, to make the game listen. And of course, you can still type :)Now, the good news!-Players couldn’t complete all the 18 achievements, because it turns out only 14 worked. In this patch, the We’re a Great Team and Clue Eraser Master achievements are now functional. The Investigation Training and Clue removal training will work soon too – we’re on it! -No more free rides. Some of you got the Baggage Handler achievement just by asking Mike for the blue briefcase. Our new co-reference resolution code was just too smart. Now you’ll have to work for it :)We’d like to solicit some of your ideas regarding training. How about making training just this: “Find out when the family ate together. Then discover the commands Jimmy knows, and get him to put two beers and some food on the kitchen table.” Essentially, you would learn by doing. The first thing will get you a video, the second – will get Jimmy moving and doing stuff (some YouTubers who covered Bot Colony recently didn’t realize the robot could be commanded :) We’d appreciate your feedback to this proposal!In closing, if you purchased the game on Steam, please review and Recommend if you like it – we’re still shy of the 50 reviews we need to be noticed on the store. Those of you who tried it when speech recognition wasn’t activated, do take it for a spin. It’s a whole new experience!. Major Update Launched today ( + Episode 3 Prototype Video): We’re happy to bring you a major update focused on what makes Bot Colony unique: language-based investigation. You now have a second mission in the Intruder episode: learn more about the family members and find out why the house was empty – by asking questions that will trigger Jimmy ‘s Robot’s Visual Memories (RVM’s). RVM’s are videos of significant events a robot (Jimmy in this case) witnessed. If you do well, you’ll see all the 14 RVM’s – your new challenge in Intruder, in addition to erasing all traces of the intrusion. You’ll be offered the RVM mission after you restore 18 objects to their original position (easier now since you can now Continue from the last checkpoint!). With this update, Bot Colony offers more than commanding robots – the focus of the previous version. Now, you can investigate using your own words to discover the key information you need to advance in the game. To do this, we made a major improvement to our Natural Language Understanding pipeline – temporal Question Answering. We’ve always wanted to bring you a credible experience of speaking with machines. We hope that this update delivers on this vision.We went to great lengths to reduce the percentage of IDK (I don’t know) answers. The key idea was to put in place a principle guiding what a robot should know: a robot should be able to answer questions about events that he experienced first-hand. Jimmy is now able to tell you how he came to know any item of information you’re uncovering (how do you know that?) – he’ll answer I saw it, or I heard it. To offer a completely credible experience, we’ve actually placed Jimmy and the characters in the scene, and then enacted the situations Jimmy observed using our text-to-animation technology: we moved the characters around like in a theatre performance and created a textual database out of their movements and utterances, that COULD have been used to drive our text-to-animation technology IF 1) we had IK for all the animations you’ll see (slapping, hugging, playing with toys, etc.) 2) animation quality was good enough. Since 1) and 2) are not yet there, the cut scenes were done by animators – but in principle they could have been generated just by commanding the characters to do what they do. The distances from Jimmy to another character he observes and the angles were logged during this enactment process, and you can query them. We’ve done this for 48 hours for the Intruder house. In the future, we may extend this to Arrival and other levels. By placing Jimmy in the situations he actually witnesses and recording what he saw and heard, we get more credible, complete and coherent information about what happened (Jimmy would be able to tell you who he saw at 11:30:41 on Thursday 27 August 2021, and that the distance was 10.3 m). This approach provides better coverage for question answering and reduces IDK – previously, Jimmy’s fact base had to be written manually. This is why this update took several months to release.We plan to continue investing in making our robots more ‘intelligent’, and enabling you to get to information irrespective of the words you’re using – this is what is unique about the Bot Colony game experience, that no other game offers. We appreciate any feedback about things that didn’t work as you expected. Finally, with this Update we’re also releasing a video of Riot (Landfall Episode 3) Prototype. In the Riot Humanity Test, you converse with robots about what emotions a certain situation is likely to trigger – their goal is to learn this to be able to able to react like a person ( simulate a person’s emotional behaviour through quasi-emotions, as described in the Bot Colony novel). All done through conversation, this is truly genre-defining gameplay!UPDATE FEATURES AND HOW TO PLAY. Scheduled downtime and news: North Side (our studio) is moving this weekend, and as we're hosting the game on our servers, we need to take them down for at least part of the weekend.Some time next week I hope we'll be able to release an update containing checkpoints for Airport, together with more background story - you'll be able to ask the robots what they saw or heard prior to your arrival.Riot is coming along, and we'll post some shots from Riot development soon. Have a great weekened everyone!UPDATE SUNDAY OCTOBER 1st: Servers are now up again. Enjoy Bot Colony!. Pulling the plug on Bot Colony: I am very sad to announce that we will have to shut down Bot Colony due to lack of sales. Bot Colony sales are so low we can't even cover the cost of the servers running the Natural Language Understanding software - which is $524 per month ( we don't even sell 2 units per day, which would enable us to keep the servers running). To give you some figures, the NLU technology powering Bot Colony cost around $20M and many years to develop. It is probably one of the best NLU technologies available in the world today. The game itself probably cost another $2M - $3M. On the other hand, the lifetime sales of the game to date are about $10K - not even one day of operating costs for us when we were fully staffed (we worked on it for 7 years). The update that we launched last Friday cost about $460,000 to develop. Incidentally, this update features some really innovative, unique gameplay, and I urge those who bought the game to try it - we worked really hard on it. When we released the update on Friday, we made public a video showing what we had achieved in Episode 3. Unfortunately, all of this only brought in a measly $200 in gross sales (we went up from 793 lifetime units to 814). This was the last straw that led to the decision today to shut the game down - 96 hours after launching the update. I've subsidized Bot Colony for years, and as a result I now owe $5M to the banks. My house - and it's a nice house that I love where I've lived the last 15 years - is on the market. I've had to lay off 40 of our employees - most of our staff - because of the lack of sales. It is a tragedy, especially because we've put our hearts into this game, believing we will change the industry by enabling players to converse with the characters in games. I've always enjoyed taking care of our customers, so I cringe at the thought of pulling the plug, but we don't have a choice. A customer wrote: This is an awesome update. Thank you for continuing to work on this. I've been excited about Bot Colony since I got it last June. Such a great concept! Thank you! The concept of characters that understand what the player says is unique and innovative, but may be ahead of its time. Not many people get excited about it (or know that Bot Colony game exists). I'll admit to inadequate marketing, problems with immature tech (and speech to text), an inexperienced dev team, etc - many factors that I did not foresee in 2007, when we started work on Bot Colony. Given the opportunity, I would have done a few things differently - but now it's too late.I realize that some of you paid money to buy a game that will soon be impossible to play - because it requires online servers that cost money to keep running, while no money comes in. I have advised Steam of the situation, and Bot Colony is no longer available to buy - in order to minimize the fallout when it will stop. We will keep the servers running until March 15, to give you enough time to enjoy the game that you bought. I hope you'll consider this fair. I'm offering to publish another video that tells the entire Bot Colony story - all the 12 episodes of Bot Colony, if you really care to see it (let's say if at least 10 people ask for it ). If anybody wants to buy Bot Colony knowing it will die March 15 - talk to Steam, and maybe they will sell it to you. For those who want to know the story that inspired Bot Colony and understand what robots could do in the near future, the Bot Colony novel is available here http://www.amazon.ca/Bot-Colony-Novel-Present-Future-ebook/dp/B00K7O6BSE To our few fans, thank you for supporting us and for playing our game!. 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