Quoting: ShmerlInspired by Broforce?

I haven't played Broforce, but I imagine the humour and style might be similar. Gameplay mechanics seem different though, unless Broforce has time manipulation as a central gimmick as well.

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Quoting: nllaGimme scanlines and I'm sold.

...Why?

Seriously, I've always found those effects pointless.

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I found the game well made but the action is a bit too hectic for me. I played it for a bit over an hour before giving up. No regrets though as I got it in the recent Humble Indie Bundle. The Hexcells collection alone was worth the price.

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The trailer does look promising. Do keep us posted. :)

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Welcome to GOL, Na'tosha, and thanks for being awesome. :)

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Great stuff. Thanks Liam, and Timothee of course.

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Quoting: wintermuteI'm pretty sure that ELIZA was in the public domain as it was developed in an academic setting. A new implementation only took a few hundred lines of PROLOG, most of that data, it was one of the early assignments when I did my AI classes at University. In any case you were probably playing a version based on the BASIC implementation published in Creative Computing in 1977 [External Link].

That sounds about right, yes. I was knee-high when I had it so I was unaware of and uninterested in the history. I mostly just had fun changing the responses to turn the psychiatrist into an extra talkative executioner or something.

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Quoting: EikeI'm very confident Feral wouldn't do it Batman style.

Who knows how they dress on casual fridays. Might be an office full of caped crusaders for all we know.

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Quoting: bingusBeen a long time since the good old text parser has been in a game. Looks a bit more modernized than the Kings Quest days though.

There's been a few since then, especially in the IF and adventure hobbyist circles. In modern commercial games the text interface ends up at best a gimmick or at worst a hindrance to enjoyment, but there are gems.

Of the oldies, I still have fond memories of playing (and fiddling with the code of) what I suspect was an unauthorized fan remake/translation of ELIZA for the C64 as a kid, and the early Sierra adventures were some of my first loves. Until I dumped them for Lucasarts that is. Of course there's plenty of awesome IF like most of the Infocom adventures, but those I discovered much later on the PC.

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Quoting: KeyrockYou need to build a relationship with an AI? What are the chances the AI eventually tries to kill you? 99%? 99.9%? 99.9999999999999%?

The only good cliché is a sci-fi cliché. ;)

But seriously, I'm hoping it's more about the gotchas of human-AI interaction than a new take on HAL. Wouldn't bet on it though.

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