Event [0]: New Screens and Release Date
Ocelot Society and Kaizen-85 have revealed the official release date for the new upcoming sci-fi narrative exploration game Event[0]. In this game, players have to build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer in order to return home. The game will arrive this September 14 for Windows PC and Mac via Steam and the Humble Store by Humble Bundle.
Some new screenshots were also released for the game, which you can check out in the gallery below. Click on the thumbnails to see the full-size images. Also, here’s an official synopsis for the game:
Set in a retrofuture inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris and Brave New World, Event[0] is a game about building a personal relationship with a machine using natural language. As a player, your only companion is an insecure and unstable AI entity named, Kaizen, with whom you interact by typing messages on computer terminals throughout a desolated spacecraft. The game’s multi-layered story emerges organically as players communicate with Kaizen, freely explore 3D environments, gather information and solve hacking puzzles. Each player will enjoy a unique gameplay experience based on the way they choose to communicate with Kaizen, who can procedurally generate over two million lines of dialog and demonstrates a variety of different personalities, and responses, influenced by human input.
As in any relationship, there can be gratitude, disappointment or jealousy, and Kaizen reacts differently depending on its mood and the situation at hand. The ship, Nautilus, is essentially the AI computer’s body, and reacts to Kaizen’s mood by making different sounds, which can give the player subtle yet valuable clues. By working through the fears and anxieties of a virtual companion players can ultimately find the way back to Earth—while unraveling the cryptic history of the ship and the 1980s society from which it emerged.
The game was created using the Unity Engine 5.