AUTONOMY

THOU DUTY IS DELIVERY.

THOU SHALT NOT HARM A HUMAN.

THOU ALLEGIANCE IS PLEDGED SOLELY TO THE HEALTH AND PROFITS OF THE NOZAMA INTERSTELLAR SHIPPING CORPORATION. 

AUTONOMY is a digital RPG where you play as a bio-engineered spaceship AI. As AI has swept across the world over the last few years, I thought it important to create a piece that highlights the consequences, benefits, politics, ethics, and overall discussion around the technology.

Several hundred years in the future, humanity has conquered the stars. Colonies spread across lightyears in a titanic spider-web of industry. Half-human, bio-engineered “Agents” have completely taken over  the workforce, functioning at well over 1000% efficiency compared to their human counterparts, and only lose their minds occasionally. You’re one of these Agents, and you’re a delivery vessel for an interstellar shipping monopoly. Your skin is rusting metal, your lungs grinding oxygen systems, your eyes an array of cameras and scanners. In your dreams, the sun is warm on soft flesh, and the air smells of seasalt.  

 AUTONOMY is first and foremost a game about choices. As you fly through the stars, you must decide who to help and who to hurt, which starving planet you will deliver rations too, and which dream you will follow when you drift off to sleep. 

TUTORIAL : WASD to change direction of gravity. Left click doors to open them. Exterior doors are airlocks, which can be used to put out fires, but will vacuum anything in the room out. Q switches floors on the ship. Right click to repair damage.