Glad to see that the "AI Agent Status" is gone from the store page. As an optional download? Sure, but that sort of thing is not really what the Steam Machine is built for.

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I really like the look of this! I was expecting something closer to AAlib, but this is both much cleaner, and more dynamic.

Concerning the prose, it reminds me more of HAM radio texting or classic science fiction computers - a style plenty of other games have used for decades.

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Quoting: syylkJust me, or we're going toward a narrative that inequivocally links "gen AI" with "earth devastating total crap shoved down our collective throat to further enrich a certain party-happy island cabal of billionaires"?

I'm wondering if the pendulum is swinging too far in the other direction...

As others have said, the current reality of the landscape certainly is more in line with that narrative.
I just want to add to that, that if I ever see a game that has an "AI Notice" saying something along the lines of:

• "used a local model, trained on our own art, to help with in-between animation frames" or


• "used open source model XXXX to expand the amounts of keywords recognized by the text-adventure section of the game"

then I'd be fine with that! But I have yet to see any notice coming even close to anything like that, so the pendulum still has to stay exactly where it is.

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At least for Europe, I still don't understand why credit-card and 3rd party payment platforms have to be involved at all. Shouldn't IBAN transfers be able to replace it all with a bit of metadata in the message field?

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With the amount of times I've put off a desktop gaming session because I couldn't remember how my DualSense differed from the Steam Deck controls, or because of the awkward way it handles gyro aiming (or how on earth that touchpad thing is supposed to work), the Steam Controller (2) is going right in the basket next week!
A shame they didn't keep the dual-stage triggers from the original Steam Controller, but at least it'll be a consistent experience from Deck to Desktop!

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"HINO" reminds me quite a bit of "Neverending Nightmares" - a good thing - and "KILLA" just looks lovely in general; good start!

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Quoting: dpanterWhy. 🤮

I think the idea is fine: stop giving your data to "AI" companies that keep promising magical capabilities with no real-world data to back it up, and host it yourself.
However, when "AI" is self-hosted, I think the generally negative cost-to-benefit ratio of the whole thing becomes even more apparent, and there's no social media pressure to "just use this model instead, bro, I swear it's better, pinky-promise you're missing out / falling behind / won't get to hang with the cool kids".

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I mean... yeah, this is probably how this madness should have started a couple of years ago, instead of dumping everything into 3rd party "AI" companies, it should have been on-premise and openly developed, but I also think this is too little, too late now.
This won't have a marketing hype machine behind it - which is largely what's still driving the bubble - so I don't know how far this will get.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

seek revenge against your own body after it betrayed you.

What.

You know, a bit like getting a gym membership.

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Quoting: Eocene84

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

Since the "Alien Breed" series of games has been left alone all these years - while featuring both obvious Xenomorph rip-offs and "Alien" in the name - I think they're pretty safe. I also don't think this specific alien looks much like the Xenomorph at all.
Other games that would hinder any legal action: "R-Type" (Xenomorph rip-off), "Alien Syndrome" (Xenomorph and Colonial Marines rip-offs), "Ninja Gaiden" (Xenomorph rip-off), "TMNT IV: Turtles in Time" (Xenomorph rip-off - also featured in the comics), "Alien Rampage" (Predator similarity), "Contra" (both Xenomorphs and facehuggers are "homage'd" here), and "Alien Storm" (less Giger inspiration, but the name's similar to this new game).
So, with a lack of visual similarity, a bunch of Xeno-rip-offs in games already, and with the abundances of games already on Steam with a name that starts with "Alien", I don't think they have much to worry about 😁
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

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