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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Quoting: ElectricPrismI had read on Phoronix the game started with T.

No idea where that came from though.

Feral's based in London. Everything starts with tea over there.

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Quoting: STiATI doubt that any game supporting Vulkan will come out any time soon, since drivers of the Ubuntu LTS are not up for it (NVidia 304.131)

Feral's had drivers newer than what's been available out-of-the-box on Ubuntu as a minimum requirement before. My bet is on Mad Max powered by plain "old" OpenGL 4 though.

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Quoting: liamdaweGreat news, will you bag a copy when it releases for Linux?

I will most definitely bag a copy, thanks for asking. In fact, I will bag it so hard I'd better find a really sturdy bag and hope the copy survives the impact. I should also find a good therapist for my wallet.

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Quoting: liamdaweGreat news, will you bag a copy when it releases for Linux?

I will most definitely bag a copy, thanks for asking. In fact, I will bag it so hard I'd better find a really sturdy bag and hope the copy survives the impact. I should also find a good therapist for my wallet.

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Quoting: khalismurAnd that's why they implemented the refund system, without questions asked for games recently bought and little play time. It's basically a demo for all steam titles.

I guess, although there's the added hurdle of having to pay upfront, going through the whole process, and getting the refund as steam wallet funds regardless of your payment method (unless I'm mistaken). I'd rather have a no-nonsense demo instead.

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