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Event[0] is a game about a stranded astronaut talking to an artificial intelligence to help them get back to earth. Like Firewatch before it, much of this solitary adventure is centered around conversing with your colleague. Unlike Firewatch, your colleague is a computer recalling 2001's HAL. Also unlike Firewatch, you get to manually type in the questions you'd like to ask. There's no prescribed dialogue trees here, folks."As a player, your only companion is an insecure AI entity named Kaizen with whom you interact by typing messages on computer terminals throughout the ship," developer Ocelot Society said of Event[0]. "The game's multi-layered story emerges organically as players communicate with Kaizen, freely explore 3D environments, gather information and solve hacking puzzles."
"Kaizen can procedurally generate over two million lines of dialog and the AI entity has a strong personality influenced by human input," the developer added. "Players communicate by typing messages into a computer, and Kaizen responds. As in any relationship, there can be gratitude, disappointment or jealousy, and Kaizen reacts differently depending on its mood. By working through the fears and anxieties of your virtual companion you can ultimately find your way back to Earth - while unraveling the cryptic history of the ship and the 1980s society from which it emerged."
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