If we're going with the android cop vs android murder/hardware harvesting ring thing, he should go undercover.
Are the bad guys androids or human? Jerk androids would be scary but I like the idea of our android pretending to be human. If anyone sees you using android gadgets you are busted. WHIRR WHIRR. What was that? WHIRR I NEED TO USE THE BATHROOM EXCUSE ME
THAT IS ALL
Are the bad guys androids or human? Jerk androids would be scary but I like the idea of our android pretending to be human. If anyone sees you using android gadgets you are busted. WHIRR WHIRR. What was that? WHIRR I NEED TO USE THE BATHROOM EXCUSE ME
THAT IS ALL
I LOVE the idea of an android pretending to be human. AND I LOVE THE THINGS THAT WE COULD MAKE THE PLAYER DO WITH A BIT LIKE THAT
ReplyDeleteYou talk to people in your human disguise and they are a bit nicer to you? one of the guys you just talk to falls a bit in love with you and sends you e-mails periodically through the rest of the game like
'how are you? i was thinking about that thing you said about ____ and it really reminded me of this holonovel i know you would really like :)'
OR MAYBE LIKE HINTS
LIKE A BONUS HINT MAKER IS IF YOU GET AN NPC TO FALL A BIT IN LOVE WITH YOU AT ONE STAGE (accidentally, I imagine that the human is basically an insertion of us in terms of falling in love with people)
and you go to order food but you are a robot, you don't have tastebuds, what food goes with WHAT GOD BEING HUMAN IS HARD
Also I was thinking about the harvesting thing, we need motivation. That's what's not selling it right now, because the only motivation I can think of is £££ and that's a little tired for me and also doesn't really have an END GAME or whatever.
ReplyDeleteSo why? how do we freshen up this concept? Do we need to, does it matter if my brain is clogged with Deus Ex and Philip K. Dick? (yes, probably, argh,)
Maybe the androids are super clever and they manufacture and design other androids but the android company are dicks abut their technology and don't share. Maybe there aren't really any human cyborgs (or they are still primative) because there's an android monopoly on that kind of technology. 40 years ago humans turned over that kind of thinking to the androids they designed and didn't predict they would get so great at it OR be such dicks. No one wants to admit there is a problem and science isn't cool anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe high tech limbs that are being stolen mostly go to people injured in a terrible war no one likes to talk about and to people in all those other situations where they are missing a limb. Also adorable children. Naturally there's a sinister side to it where military/police androids are torn apart for gun arms or whatever and there's some human jerks who pay big money for gun arms.
OR SOMETHING.
I hope our robot has something to fake a digestive system so he doesn't just have to pretend to swallow food and then keep it in his mouth until he finds a quiet bin. He has to act like a fussy kid at the dinnertable and scrape the food into plant pots or just puts it in his pocket.
ReplyDeleteI'd LOVE it if a human falls a bit awkwardly in love with the android. It gets difficult to espionage because he keeps popping up. "Oh, hey, hey, I was just- I was just passing by on my way to get.. um, sorry, yeah. What- what'choo doing? Oh gosh you are busy, sorry, I was just wondering- they have a super new holodisplay at the- and you said you liked the- oh, I will just catch you later, okay? Okay."
And the android is just standing on some objects he stacked up, elbow deep in the security system.
YES that is exactly what I was thinking of. YOUR ADMIRERER HAS A LOT OF STRANGE NEW FEELINGS THAT HE IS STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND AND YOU ARE A ROBOT, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THAT
DeleteRhys is doing a project about an android that I think is trying to integrate into human society (or at least that's how he describes it, but then again his character has glowing blue eyes and bulky armour so *shrugs*) but anyway we were talking about the whole food issue the other day and I suggested that if an android was going to pretend to be human it may as well run off calories. Obviously a robot would only really bother with macronutrients which could result in some peculiar behaviour, but what's more suspicious, a person consuming an entire block of butter and then smelling of burning butter for the next few minutes, or a person never eating anything ever and sometimes wondering off to plug themselves in to the mains.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think if we're going to have an android trying to pretend to be a human we should make it only part of the story, like for one particular puzzle. You'd need an alibi for why every single one of your limbs (and face) is cybernetic. In fact, this could lead to a puzzle where you have to change costume and convince different people that you're human. A wheel chair and a massive flamboyant hat with a veil gets rid of the sound of gears and past the security guard but how do you get up stairs to the door behind the massive "access prohibited" sign? Well you could say you were a soldier who was in a terrible explosion and your entire body was replaced by cybernetics then just walk up when no one was looking but you'd better find a convincing costume or no one will believe you. And so on.
I don't know, I think androids need to have limitations and weaknesses. I like the idea of, I don't know, a companion bot, or a host bot, some robot that'd regularly come into situations where it's appropriate to eat, having an upgrade that allows them to 'eat food' (it'd go down like a fake gullet, maybe? to a pocket inside that the robot could empty out at it's leisure?), but with things like our detective where it didn't at the time really need that frivolous sort of upgrade when it could get a cool new perp-interviewing chip instead, they wouldn't be able to eat. Maybe it wouldn't fritz out Haley Joel Osmund in AI style (have you seen AI? THAT SCENE WIGS ME OUT HARDCORE), but yeah, odd electric smells, and our hero would have to slink off to unjam sandwich meat from his inside parts later and maybe start twitching erratically.
DeleteYeah, I think that's where we were going with that! YOU COULD HAVE TO GET ILLEGAL RUBBER SLEEVES TO GO OVER YOUR BITS. You are going to have to stop going BEEP BOOP though.