Bot Colony

Bot Colony has been a rather intriguing ride into AI interaction. While certain actions are beyond the in game robot's comprehension, this would likely be true as well with a real life robot, until its programming allowed such expansion of knowledge. The conversations I had with the robot, Jimmy, reminded quite heavily of a part in the movie "I, Robot" where the detective is interrogating a hologram. Multiple times the hologram reminds the detective that his responses aren't unlimited like a human, so he must ask the right questions. The robot interactions remind me quite heavily of this because in a way, you have to consider the robot's understanding and how it relates to the world. Asking the robot "what video did you record?" is about the same as asking your PC to open the correct steam game without further description. But if you ask the robot via date and time stamps, Jimmy instantly knows what you are looking for and he even will answer follow-up questions to the videos you watch. While there were some minor frustrations getting the robot to "speak the same language", for an early access game this shows a great deal of promise as it progresses and becomes more fleshed out. The Dev team is also one of the most responsive ones I have interacted with in a while. Not only do they geuninely seem to care about the game development, but actively test reported glitches and review the forums for player input. This will certainly be a game I will be playing with more in the future as it continues to be polished.

When I first played this I actually wasn't a fan since the controls felt kinda weird (and my computer was kinda ♥♥♥♥ back then which clearly didn't help :p). I also wasn't too sure on what to do and how to interact with robots. When I started it again though a few days ago, I realized pretty fast that a lot about the game had changed and that the devs had put a sh*tload of work into their game. It "feels" pretty good now and interacting with the robots, figuring out how you get the answer you want/need out of them and teaching them new stuff was a lot of fun and I'm already looking forward to play the third episode. Usually the achievements are what make me play a game in first place but here they were just the cherry on top. If you decide to get Bot Colony you're not getting a game, you're getting an experience.

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[h1] Bot Colony [i] The could be good when done, frustrating game that actually remains fun ![/i][/h1] Ok so this is a weird game to review, the game claims to be the first AI-powered conversation game, and if this is AI at its best then we have nothing to fear from any AI’s anytime soon. You are supposed to be able to talk to the robots and question them with speech recognition…..this works about 30% off the time and some of the things it thinks you said genuinely amuses. In my test i spent an hour on the start of the tutorial, I had to order Jimmy (A robot i had hacked in my tutorial role as a spy) about….first though i told him my name (spy 101, never give the enemies security system your name lol) When the speech recognition worked i found him to be rather on the dense side of things Me: “what is on the computer?” Jimmy “There is a bottle of whisky,a pencil, a ruler...” Me: “what files where on the computer?” Jimmy: “I don't have an exact answer but i know Masaya watched video content on the computer” Me: “show me the video content”, Jimmy: “I cant find the content nearby” Me: “Show me the video content on the computer next to you” Jimmy: which video content on the computer next to you ? please point to the video content on the computer next to you” I click the computer Jimmy: “this isnt a video content on the computer next to you, this is a work station” Me: “show me the video content on the workstation” Jimmy” which video content please point to ….” ARGHHHHHH lol So why i am saying it is a weird game to review, clearly the main functionality of the game is broken, so it is a do not recommend, right? Well no, it is broken, of that there is no doubt, but it was also strangely a lot of fun trying to get the truth from Jimmy and deeply satisfying when i finally wrangled one of the 14 videos from him [b]CONTROLS/CONTROL PAD[/b] Use your voice or type and move around with mouse and keyboard. The mouse and keyboard work well as does the typing the voice recognition...not so much though it did seem to improve towards the end of my test session. [b]GRAPHICS[/b] Very dated, if you simply must have the latest shiny graphics then this is not for you. [b]INTUITIVENESS[/b] No, dear god no, one of the least intuitive games i have ever played, from a control stance it is picked up quite fast but working out how to proceed in the game is near on impossible. [b]PROS:[/b] [list] [*] Unique design. [*] Could be very good once it works right. [*] The update history shows the dev is trying to make it work properly. [*] Strangely fun despite not working right, you will enjoy getting frustrated with Jimmy. [/list] [b]CONS:[/b] [list] [*] It just does not do what it sets out to do. [/list] [b]FIRST TRY VIDEO[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-xVMS1sGk [b]VERDICT[/b] At the time of this review the game is in the summer sale for £4 at that price it is well worth getting, for the novelty, the weird fun at trying to get Jimmy to play ball and for the hope the game improves in the future. At its standard price i would say get it only if you understand it is not what it promises to be. This is however a recommended game as i enjoyed playing it. Jimmy is lucky i do not have access to a trash compactor though…..

Was looking forward to playing this game after seeing the introduction and reading about the concept. However that was long gone when I got to the game and the Servers where down. It seemed that I was not the only one to come across this issue. So for now I will have to rate it as a thumbs down untill I can retry the game. So if you are looking the bot/speech kinda game review you are straight out of luck as the one that i was offered is down for the count!

Broken game. Doesn't work, lot's of bugs, Voice commands don't work. This game is not Pre-Alpha. It's Pre-Pre-Pre Alpha. Love the idea of the game, just wish they worked on it a bit more before releasing it. Will update and play when the game is at least in Pre-Alpha stage UPDATE 13-JUNE-2017 Still not working. Had the voice commands working for a few seconds, and then the game crashed. Have not been able to got the voice commands to work ever since. I admired the game idea a lot, I really do. But you just can't sell this game at this state. I advise everyone to NOT buy this game as of yet. Wait and hope it will work in the future. Again, to the developers, I admire the idea, I really love the idea a lot. It's just unfortunate it's not working how it should. I do have hopes that in the near future I can try again, and it will work for everyone. I'd hate to see a beautiful idea like this die.

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This is a game I've had my eye on for quite some time. I just bought it and haven't had much time to play until now, but just the idea of the game is great. I had the chance to talk to the robot in the first mission (or better I typed). Furthermore, I've had opportunity to try to talk to some A.I. in the past before, but this is something else. I can only imagine the work involved in making such a game. A.I. has been fascinating to me as long as I can think (about nearly four centuries) and I am surprised how well this works. Of course, I have to pay attention to how exactly to describe things (and in how many words). I can see that there are quite some hurdles to overcome for the developers, so I am not disappointed at all, when not everything works instantly. Humans expect quite a lot from each other when talking. For example, if I am talking about a chair and later someone asks what color that chair had – I am not sure an A.I. could reason that far. There might be other chairs around, and it just does not know which chair is meant. This is game is some serious stuff, and I can only hope the developers get as far as they hope to. I haven't played long enough to tell you anything about the later game just now, but the potential of this game is unbelievably. Although I might be biased because of my fascination with robots, A.I. and the like. I'd say this is a game that needs some serious support. Thumbs up for progress so far, and I am curious what else I might get from this game. Edited because I had tons of errors in the review, but I didn't change the content of it.

Bot colony é um jogo onde o controle é feito pela sua voz e teclado. No jogo você deve conversa(Controla) Uma inteligencia artificial para completar seus objetivos,A inteligencia artificial tem um pouco de humor(Falei que amava ele e ele falo que me amava <3). O jogo tem um grafico muito bonito e atraente,Suas animações são as mais Lindas que eu ja vi em um jogo com acesso antecipado na steam em toda minha vida. O cenario é totalmente manipulavel(todos os objetos são interativos com o robo),Da para pedir para a IA tocar musica no violão e tam bem abri a porta da geladeira pra deixar a comida aprodecer xD. Pros: Cenario totalmente manipulavel; Grafico bonito; Animações bonitas; Facil de jogar; Audio limpo; Baixo tempo de carregamento; Todos os mapas tem bastante vida e elementos fazendo parece que realmente foi feito baseado em um lugar que existe na vida real; Comandos bem simples,VocÊ tem que mandar o robo fazer uma coisa de cada vez e isso pode causar bugs problematicos ao decorrer do jogo; Podemos controlar a IA e nosso personagem quando quisermos. Contras: Você aperta para inicar um novo jogo e não pode retorna para o menu,Sendo obrigatorio começar outro jogo; Movimentação do nosso personagem bastante lerda,Fazendo parece que estamos com baixo fps no jogo mesmo não tendo; Se dermos muitos comandos para a IA ela pode fica travada em qualquer local,Você da comandos e ela responde aos comandos mas não se movimenta; As vezes o jogo da um drop frame; Tentei utilizar o chat de voz para me comunicar com o robo sem precisar utilizar mensagens e não foi possivel pois não conseguia me desmultar(pode ser um problema que ocorreu só comigo); E com isso termino minha analise,Qualquer duvida podem entra em contato comigo que irei responder todas as perguntas o mais rapido possivel. RECOMENDO COMPRAREM O JOGO,Alem de ser um bom jogo e inovador o criador do jogo realmente quer que esse jogo tenha uma continuação,Vamos fazer ele sair do acesso antecipado e vamos fazer ele virar o melhor jogo com esse estilo de comunicação com IA :D

10/10 good gameplay and mechanics *you can teach the bots meme's* the game is fun and challenging and still in development so i am looking folward to future gameplay mechanics