Bot Colony

For an early access game, it is pretty solid. I really enjoyed the interaction process and figuring out what to say next. Plus there are tons of more interactions that can be explored in each level (I can see that from the achievements list) so theres a lot of replayability there. Can't wait for the next level to be released. Keep up the good work!!

I had high hopes from the trailer, but was really dissapointed. The game is so buggy and finicky it's essentially impossible to get through the tutorial, even if you're not using voice recognition. Often you'll tell the robots to move things, and it'll turn out that that was the wrong thing to do, it's completely irreversible, and you need to start the game over. I restarted many times and eventually gave up. The natural language understanding that was supposed to make this game so awesome seems like it's on par with text adventures from the 80s... not much beyond "VERB NOUN." It's too bad; the concept is good, and it sounded like the story could be great as well.

The game itself is still rough and the voice recognition can be frustrating at times, but the understanding of the bots in Bot Colony is fascinating. Highly recommend picking it up if you're a robo-nerd like me. It's an exciting look at human-machine interaction in games and beyond.

well i got this game thought it would be really fun to play......then the problems started it would boot and go through the into just fine. when it got to the loading screen to go into the mission it just crashes out. i ran a trouble shoot and it says that its not compatible with windows 8 i thing they should have put that in the information about the game so people didnt waste there time. i hope there will be an update that will help with this problem.

In its current state, I've had no problems running this game on my iMac running Windows 8.1 via Bootcamp. I usually do not purchase Early Access games, but I'm a total nerd for Asimov's Robot books and this game's notion of robots seems pretty reflective of Asimov's characterization of robots and their interaction with humans. I'm also a computational linguist, so the inclusion of NLU (Natural Language Understanding) had me very curious as well. NLU is complicated to achieve since meaning needs to be derived from an utterance, which sometimes means inferences must be made, but I think it works pretty well in this game, especially for the game being Early Access. I'd love to see the NLU improved and extended to other genres of games. But I think the first implementation--dealing with robots that don't always understand pragmatics--is a perfect first implementation.

Bot Colony appeared rather promising when it released on Steam as part of the Early Access programme last year. It aimed to be the first game where you truly interacted with the characters through holding conversations with them. But it wasn’t until this month that the potential of this system was was hinted at through an update that introduced a need to pry information out of one of the characters . The task was to gain access to 14 recorded videos in an attempt to piece together the events of the last 48 hours in the home of a Nakagawa Robot Corp. employee. To do this required talking to Jimmy, a robot servant left in the house. And when I say talking, I actually mean talking. Either through speech recognition with a microphone or typing, Jimmy was capable of responding to questions posed in naturally flowing English. This certainly makes a refreshing change to only selecting from predefined dialogue options. And had the potential of revolutionizing interaction with game characte...

For a game that purports to be a speech-enabled game, you have to: 1> Move the mouse to the bottom right of the screen 2> Click the speech icon 3> Say a line 4> Then hit enter on the keyboard for EVERY SINGLE THING YOU WANT TO SAY. Until you can leave the mic enabled, and it recognizes the end of sentences (you know, when you stop talking), this is not at all good speech interaction.

I cant even load the game, I get to the mainmenu and it says "cannot connect to server" or something like that

[b] Review after June 18 major upgrade [/b] [h1] Introduction [/h1] Bot Colony is an ambitious title, aiming to provide a non-scripted story by allowing you to freely converse with robots. If you enjoyed literary works like 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', Isaac Asimov's Robot series, movies like 'Space Oddysey 2001'(not one of my favorites though) or Anime like 'Ghost in the Shell' and 'Psycho-Pass', you'll find a similar setting here. An important remark is that most of the gameplay is text (or speech) conversations, which at times can be both agitating and humorous, and that might not appeal to everyone. Currently, the game is made of 2 episodes: Intruder and Arrival. [h1] Intruder [/h1] You have 2 objectives. The first one is erasing evidence of a thief breaking into the house, by commanding a robot (Jimmy). The other one is an investigation mission, which you can do at the same time, in which you question Jimmy about what happened at the house in the last 48 hrs. Jimm...

This is by far the best robot game on Steam. The second is currently Scrap Garden. I want to clarify first two issues. The first seem to be mixed reviews, and the second is the controls. There is currently a single developer responsible for this massive immersive title. There is only so much he could do in the way of gameplay, and because of such a shortage of resources, there is only one chapter. The introductory mission is a test to train the player - which brings me to the second issue. There is a lack of understanding for how robotics work. That has caused a lot of confusion and problems in gameplay for gamers. I recommend looking at some Fallout command line functions. I completely 100% recommend spending $15 on his incomplete title. He's almost finished the 2/3 chapter of Landfall. If you have a problem with 21st Century robots, then don't buy the game. There is absolutely no reason to justify a negative review or recommendation. It's sad that it's happened, but we should supp...