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'. 6d5b4406ea Title: Bot ColonyGenre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early AccessDeveloper:North SidePublisher:North SideRelease Date: 16 Jun, 2014 Free Download Bot Colony bot colony gameplay. pulsar lost colony bot guide. bot colony walkthrough. bot colony giant bomb. pulsar lost colony bot setup. bot colony game. bot colony review. bot colony free download. bot colony steam. bot colony download. pulsar lost colony bot inventory Great Story and Graphics,Nice Gameplay.Keep it going.:D. Interesting game with some mechanics that look promising. I'm sure if the game is further developed and polished, we'll have a real winner on our hands here. Pretty fun so far.. Bought it for the laughs. Still disappointed. i purchased this game nearly a year ago and it is still in early access? prosgraphics 7/10sound 8/10movement 5/10cons:clunkycommands are still hard to get through to your botstill in early accessfunds are low so no updates in a very long timepersonal thoughts:i keep hearing they are going to debunk the game and take down the servers....idk what to think...i have not played this in a long time because of all the issues the company is having. p.s. i cannot in good faith recommend this game at this time...untill or if this game ever gets completed and all the bugs have been addressed. also have never been able to even complete the tutorial...kept getting caught lol.i would be very careful buying early access games...follow them 1st see how often updates are occuring b4 buying....i learned the hard way :/. Although it's an Early Access Game, it has great potential and I liked what I have seen so far! 9/10. Come on! Is that Bot Colony maker seriious? I bought the game and I can't play it. Because I have to install the newest version of the game, and it's not automatic or daownloadable in any place you seach it. If you go to their website, my navigator tells me that is a not secure website. And I can't even have any support from Steam? So.. what do I do?. This game was extremely ambitious in scope and had it been able to continue I'm sure it could have been really cool. As it currently stands, the game is more of a testament to what it could be rather than anything. Basically, the idea is that you are required to interact with robots in order to perform some rudimentary tasks like rearranging furninture. You do this by talking to them via a microphone.Unfortunately if you don't have a good quality mic, the voice recognition suffers. It also takes a good bit of training to get it to really recognize your voice. This is probably more than any normal gamer is going to want to be bothered with, however if you DO persevere, it's somewhat fascinating. The only other game that seems to have attempted this was a game on the Dreamcast called "Seaman". This game lacks the whimsical charm of Seaman and it's a lot more serious. You also seem to have a lot more freedom in the way you can teach the bots to interact with you. That's right, the bots actually learn from you. It starts out with just a few basic commands for movement, item manipulation, and other things, and when you issue a command the bot doesn't understand, you have the option to teach it how to perform the command using a series of steps from the commands he already knows.I think this could have been the real hook to this game. The "plot" to the story would be a side-quest compared to just trying to teach your bot to do things with a series of basic commands. Still, at times I felt like I was wrestling with the bot to get it to perform an action, not because the bot had a lack of understanding but because the voice recognition was stubbornly refusing to hear a certain word. For example, I'd say cushion, the game would hear "question". As with most forms of voice recognition, it works best with the commands it expects to hear. If you say "what is this" and click on something it invariably works. If you have to be more detailed in your command, expect a word or two to be misheard. Thankfully if you can't get it to understand at all, you can always type the command in directly. Still, if this game had a ton of people talking to it and teaching it, who knows? It could have become Skynet...and then when Valve decided to pull the plug on it, it would unleash terminators to rearrange all our furniture. My toes ache just thinking about it.. so unawarte of my speech to text has to be in english and i do not have a windows 7 ultimate or enterpise wich makes it total unavble for me to play this game the proper way unfortunalyt but oh well another plenty's of money out the window guess i can't play it that's really bad pro's : looks like a very good game con's unable to get it to work because my pc is not in english therefor unable to work this should bee said more up front like a warning not every one is a geniusd on everything abbout windows on a side not it's strange my pc can't work since endwar was also speech to text but that did't care for my langues was not in english ... it looks like a sweet game but want to play it but can i no , not if 'ive buy a whole new win 7 ultimate wich is kinda foleish .. oh well. I see a lot of potential in this game and truly hope it can recieve additional funding to further advance the tech behind it. When everything works as it should Bot Colony is an amazing experience and I'm glad I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to play it. Magi Trials Game Release: We are happy to announce that our next major game release is happening right now, Highschool Romance: Magi Trials a detailed fun visual novel is now available on Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/446600/Take a look now to get extra discount on its release and enjoy an even bigger and more interesting game that our original Highschool Romance title, with an amazing script, multiple endings and over 100 illustrations. A new story created by the same team who created the game Highschool Romance.Plus more, check it out today to try your hand at our new Magical Title.. What's Next and The Untold Story video: We're now making a last ditch effort to find a solution to keep the game going past March 15. Since Valve removed the BUY button from our page, we're now offering Bot Colony Steam keys directly to our fans: you can buy packs of 3, 5 or 10 Steam keys; you can get a Steam key for buying the Bot Colony eBook; we're offering Steam keys to customers writing reviews on our Steam page, or to the first players who beat RVM and document that. See http://steamcommunity.com/app/263040/discussions/0/606068060836404191/ for details. About the eBook: few people heard about Bot Colony, so even fewer heard about the Bot Colony novel. It's an industrial espionage thriller depicting realistic verbal interactions with robots – it was meant to set the benchmark for the kind of AI we hoped to achieve in the game. A gift to our fans, Bot Colony - The Untold Story was uploaded to Steam recently (it's the 3rd video from the left on our Store page). This 30 minute video was made to give a potential developer a complete view of the game, to help estimate the effort required to complete it. The video goes through all 12 episodes, using prototype assets and stills. A bit clinical (given the intended audience), the video does give a good idea of the scope of Bot Colony, and how much we had advanced before we had to stop. I hope that people who watch it will agree that Bot Colony can be a lot more than just talking to boring drones. The game now has quite a bit to offer. In the new update, you piece together a juicy story from video clips a domestic robot recorded (RVM’s). You discover these video clips through conversation – truly unique gameplay not offered by any other game. In the two episodes released, you command robots through language under time-constraints – also unique gameplay. With the Untold Story video and the eBook – the Bot Colony story now has closure and can be enjoyed 'as is', like a released game. If Bot Colony continues to attract attention - it's now rated as popular content on Steam, who knows? What next?. MEGA UPDATE: New voice recognition, Achievements and more: With new speech recognition technology, Achievements, NLU improvements and more content in Arrival – this major upgrade is a real ‘game changer’. Even if you’ve played Bot Colony before – it's worth playing it again. You'll find it plays very differently - it’s a totally new, smoother, more immersive experience! We’ve integrated the Microsoft Cognitive Services speech API. No more speech training! Click Enter, start speaking, and click Enter again when you finish speaking. Check the text as it takes shape in the text box – you’ll find that much less editing is required. This upgrade is only available for Windows 8 and Windows 10 ( because Windows 7 doesn’t support websockets which is required by the cloud-based speech recognition, sorry!). More background here http://steamcommunity.com/games/263040/announcements/detail/2171147026184566319 - there's also a Microsoft-approved press release on this Monday morning. We’ve promised the next major release will have ACHIEVEMENTS. We're now delivering on this promise: 18 achievements, with more to come in the future. The game understands references to objects much better. You can now click on an object before you issue a robot command to put it in context. There’s more story to explore in the Arrival level.http://botcolony.com/media.php was redesigned to chronicle the game’s evolution. If you enjoy the game, please review it on the Bot Colony store page.PLEASE HELP! We need to get over 50 reviews to be more visible in searches. Please Recommend Bot Colony to help us bring you more cool features :). Text-to-Animation video: We'd appreciate your feedback on the text-to-animation idea described here (spoiler alert: Intruder will be much easier once you see this! BTW, this was done through speech, and it shows game performance with a trained profile isn't bad at all): https://www.dropbox.com/s/pai63dfy04530gx/Text-to-animation.mp4WHY THIS MATTERS?In Bot Colony, you can command robots to do things. What if we made this available as a tool in which you could import your own characters, a setting of your choice, and you could command the characters using a text script? (as you do in Intruder). Add special effects and editing tools, and you'd have what it takes to produce your own CG videos. With appropriate controls to synchronize character behaviour and speech, you could also make your own games (so, a modding tool). The key idea is to create animation through language, which opens this up to anyone (today, it's only animators).A new medium of creative expression. Thoughts?. Patch to fix Speech-to-text instability: We've just found the source of occasional crashes and freezes occurring when Microsoft Cognitive Speech-to-text was used. We tested and couldn't reproduce the crashes, so it looks like the problem is fixed. For those of you who are interested, the problem was that the websocket of STT was not synchronized properly with the Scaleform thread. Remember that speech-to-text is activated by hitting Enter (you can also click the mic icon if you prefer), speak, and then hit Enter again to send the text to our servers. Hopefully you'll have verified that the text says what you meant before hitting Enter again :) If it doesn't, correct it using the keyboard and hit Enter.Enjoy Bot Colony, and please Recommend it if you like it!. 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!. Anime Weekend Event: Highschool Possession and all other Dharker Studio games are now on sale in Steams Anime Weekend Event...http://store.steampowered.com/app/408770/http://store.steampowered.com/app/348540/http://store.steampowered.com/app/404180/http://store.steampowered.com/app/345700/http://store.steampowered.com/app/352010/http://store.steampowered.com/app/398100/http://store.steampowered.com/app/326950/. New Game Release Imminent: We are happy to announce that our next game, is due for release within the next few hours...http://store.steampowered.com/app/404180In honour of its release we have included a launch discount.Also included is Cloud Saving, Achievements and Trading Cards.P.s. uncensored patches for this game will be available via the DharkerStudio.com website as usual.. Major Update: Checkpoints everywhere, Big Brother unleashed, robot personalities, improved speech-to-text: Checkpoints everywhere. Checkpoints in Intruder - April 28 Upgrade: Since the game was relaunched on February 21, we worked hard to offer you a smoother game experience. The main feature in this version are checkpoints in Intruder. You no longer have to finish the investigation (2 hours) AND the object placement (1 -2 hours) in one session. Just EXIT and then CONTINUE at a later time/date to continue playing from the last checkpoint. We create a checkpoint after every 4 Jimmy videos. BTW: Jimmy’s videos you uncoverd are listed like this (Thursday HH:MM, HH:MM, Friday HH:MM). Green HH:MM means you’ve seen all the videos in that morning, afternoon or evening, yellow HH:MM means there’s still videos to discover around that part of day. after every 3 objects replaced. A known problem we didn’t have time to address: if you’re in training and you restart from a checkpoint, training will restart from the beginning (Sorry!). For now, just Page Down to where you left off, or skip it if you finished it.OTHER IMPROVEMENTS Improved, shorter speech training ( got a earful about that :)) Fixed hang on return to main menu from gameplay Fixed screen resolution configuration problem Fixed ‘Cannot start Vision Application’ at startup We now have automated server monitoring to improve uptime A quick reference guide available from Store page linksWe’ll have another maintenance version soon to add checkpoint to Arrival, and make referring to objects easier.Following community feedback, the next major updates will be: Achievements improved Speech-to-text quality better understanding in Arrival (it’s not yet at par with Intruder) the Riot episode If you enjoy the game and would like to help, please write a short review on the Bot Colony Store page and Recommend the game. This is really important to us! Your positive review will help spread the word about the game. Thank you!
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