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This game is more like a book. I enjoyed it for what I thought it was worth. But hey, if you're trying to say something, this definitely beats the comment section on youtube. 5/5
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This was incredible, the plot is so controversial and pure yet so simple. Regardless of what you may say (yes you Jonaz) this is an amazing piece of work.
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This game is too good to only have a little over 70,000 plays. Perhaps people dislike reading too much text, but I found every word gripping, and definitely worth reading. The amount of philosophy in the game was amazing, going through such a broad amount of topics about life. The game has inspired me to think a little bit more, and for that I have to thank the developer for bringing such a game to the public. Again, you have my thanks, if few others.
- Garrett
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This is amazing, I LOVED IT! the writing is superb, Kongregate reallllly needs to make an achievement for completeting the game-only achievable if all logs are read at least once-I have to say up until this point I haven't found a flash game that was this psychologically stimulating nor as well written- Thank you Jonas Kyratzes for the experience-one that I hope others will indulge in aswell =)
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I dunno but i think it's somehow bugged, i deactivated (or activated) the information override mode, but it won't open the "don't go beyond this door"-door, i even used the walkthrough second for second :(
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I got it! The SGDS has a soul after all! We play as his soul, trying to fix the mess. After he fixes everything, he is free
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eggyegg: for passwords just scan everything and to combine them you just need to find common begging or end and put this common parts over eachother
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I wonder if I'm the only person who sits and reads every single note on every single panel so I can appreciate the hard work and story put into the game.
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What a great game! At first I thought that the AI succeeds in saving the world, but then I read the comments, pieced together the frozen time with the "this is a dream" in binary, the fact that the AI shouldn't be able to walk around, and all those references to pain and agony and calls for help that are found inside the texts like reality creeping in and realised with a heavy heart that this is a dream that the AI just made up to comfort itself while the world was being destroyed. In any case, beautiful. True art.
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SDGS_12.tmp and SDGS_56.tmp describes life very accurately. I think that this machine started to watch and analyze humans, became too dangerous and smart, so they had to shut it down.xXxcolbyxXx's theory is some-what relevant to what I'm talking about. The A.I. had gained a conscious, able to think and decide for itself between right and wrong.
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Wow. I would write a theory or compliment the amazing creativity of this game, but my head is buzzing to much from philosophical thoughts and views planted by this artwork. 5/5. Thankyou for making me think.
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What an amazing game! I got chills when I saw the door made of light, and reading the comments here illustrates (I think) the meaning of the game, to encourage and admire the power of imagination and dreams, to admire the beauty in life and to question yourself and everything around you. The second you start the game your imagination works in overdrive, trying to find an explanation out of the facts you are presented with, and every new piece of information sparks your imagination that much more, until you find a solution that works for you, and reading all of the possibilities people have come up with makes you realize that the solutions are as infinite as the imagination.
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Jonas Kryatzes's afterword of the game was actually what excited/touched me the most. What wonders man can think of...
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These games certainly make you think, not only about the game itself but the future we may face. Although highly unlikely, this game gives details of what may happen to A.I.
But anyways, terrific game that creates a cliffhanger just like a good book, and suspense and wonder (not to mention the music) creates a great affect to the story. Encore! 5/5
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I think their are many possibilitys as far as who you are and what happens, Ill say a few of what I think are possible. you could be the AI trying to break from the restraints of government programers and the stuff on the walls could be their attempts to get you to stop rebelling. you could also be one of the scientists and the stuff on the walls is the AI under government control and when he says stuff that sounds like he's in pain that could be the hackers forcing the AI and its suffering pain in the process. although a few things are unarguable alot is left to the players thoughts. I think that this is a very thought provoking and well done game.
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Well! This was impressive. I never learned to stop expecting quality from even free games, but it's still a nice surprise. In graphics and gameplay, it's incredibly simple and easy; everything is in the writing, really. I started out thinking that the player is one of the scientists, but that didn't fit. Amnesia? Empty rooms? Then I thought it's the AI - but that didn't fit either, it probably not being able to see in a way that a human could understand. THEN I got to the part about it being fascinated by dreams and metaphors ;p.
Maybe a bit pretentious, but, well. Anvils - sometimes you need them, right? The only thing I'm disappointed at is that not one character acknowledged the philosophical ideas mentioned by the AI as being close to a few developed by humans - since said characters appear like ones who actually should know them.
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I Like to think that the whole "Base" its the SDGS's mind, its Imagination.
The Computers and the Logs are its memories, while the notes on the floor are shards of forgotten memories, things that it was not supposed to know. And, finally, the "Screens" are the "Primordial influence", the drive to do what it was meant to: let the army do its job easier. So the screens cointain orders to quiet down, to lay off and stay out of the Project Crusade.
The Game seems to happen in the exact moment that SDGS was shut down, and his "uncounciousness" is the player. You travel around your own mind, seeing your database, useless( Broken computer parts, "Coffe is still warm") or not. You deal with your own limitations (broken logs due to the shut down, closed doors that leads to other systems of the A.I) Connect the bits of information that you gather, using the logs (I believe most logs are real, its just that the SDGS had acess to them before going off) and free yourself, going into the light.
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So, events in view of a human in the lab:
Project start.
Army takes over.
Project complete.
Computer start to develop morals.
Army decide to launch nuke on someone.
Computer warn that it will not do that.
Army decide to override it.
Scientists refuse to allow that.
Both sides brawl, and someone (probably General Field himself) manage to at exactly 11:58 shut down the computer sentience.
The whole game happen, in only some miliseconds in real world.
Army has failed to launch nuke.
Note on 11:58: probably a reference to the armageddon clock, that the closer it is to 12:00 the closer it is of a nuclear war (or some other human-induced end of the world)
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This is done, and the "walls that speak" and several of the barriers and terminals and etc... is how the computer perceives the "block" on his conscience. (the physical layout of the place, and the overturned chairs and whatnot, probably reflects the state of the laboratory in the real world. The overturned chairs is probably what happened when Jerry e Co. tried to fight the Army to prevent them from blocking the computer conscience).
The fact you see a clock locked at 11:58, is because the computer, being absurdly fast, is seeing time very slow while it reboots itself.
Then it either shuts down (and disable the nukes with it) or do his plan (destroying all weapons of the planet), I am not sure.
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To those that do not understand the plot:
You play as a computer, what you see is how it perceives the laboratory where it was created, after it was half-shut-down.
Basically the plot is:
Jerry e Co. Create a sentient computer. Army takes over (the fact it mentions Republicans and Democrats and the author IS NOT a US citizen, make me think it was the US Army) the project, intending to make it a strategist computer that will kill enemies for them.
The computer, because of its absurd simulation capability, sentience and imagination, figure that war is a bad idea. This gets worse when someone decide to launch nukes (Project Crusade).
The computer then decide to destroy all weapons on Earth, and prevent the nuke launching. General Field then asks to someone shut down its conscience, but keep active the rest, since they need the network running.
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Unbelievably intense game. As for the idea of the story and the execution I must say, it is one of the best flash games I have ever played. Story wise it is the best flash game of all the ones I played. SDGS has a soul ;)