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changedTo improve realism and immersion, your conversations with various robots in Bot Colony are now saved as part of the observation database of robots and are accessible through question answering. You can ask what you told a robot, or what a robot overheard previous visitors say. This is in a quest to package Bot Colony text-to-animation technology for VR (this article on Bot Colony on our website goes on more details http://northsideinc.com/index.php/videogames/ ). Bot Colony has to save more than other games: not only the objects that you commanded a robot to move, but also a robot’s observations of people and their actions and what it heard them say (so, a real Big Brother : ). This was how we built the Investigation mission in Intruder, where you’re rewarded with videos of a robot's observations (generated in-engine, by the way). As you may know, Conversation history with a robot is saved and accessible through F10. Conversations are not saved as text, but in our internal logic form in an Object-Oriented database, so you can ask questions on what was said. With the support for checkpoints in Intruder and Arrival, you can CONTINUE from the last checkpoint and save several hours (some players have had more that 500 dialogue exchanges with robots in multi-hour sessions, which says something about engagement). All of this functionality has an impact on the size of a saved game. You only have ONE saved game that you can continue playing from the last checkpoint. We will save your game for 3 months – and saved games older than 3 months will be deleted. This seems reasonable – if you haven’t gone back to your game for 3 months, you probably forgot about it. We can’t let these huge saves accumulate indefinitely – we learned from experience that never mind how many servers and disk we’re throwing at it, it’s never enough. When the database runs out of space, all the players suffer because checkpoints don’t work anymore. If anyone has a problem with saved games being deleted after 3 months, please speak up. Enjoy Bot Colony and please Recommend it if you do!
Bot Colony changes
changedTo improve realism and immersion, your conversations with various robots in Bot Colony are now saved as part of the observation database of robots and are accessible through question answering. You can ask what you told a robot, or what a robot overheard previous visitors say. This is in a quest to package Bot Colony text-to-animation technology for VR (this article on Bot Colony on our website goes on more details http://northsideinc.com/index.php/videogames/ ). Bot Colony has to save more than other games: not only the objects that you commanded a robot to move, but also a robot’s observations of people and their actions and what it heard them say (so, a real Big Brother : ). This was how we built the Investigation mission in Intruder, where you’re rewarded with videos of a robot's observations (generated in-engine, by the way). As you may know, Conversation history with a robot is saved and accessible through F10. Conversations are not saved as text, but in our internal logic form in an Object-Oriented database, so you can ask questions on what was said. With the support for checkpoints in Intruder and Arrival, you can CONTINUE from the last checkpoint and save several hours (some players have had more that 500 dialogue exchanges with robots in multi-hour sessions, which says something about engagement). All of this functionality has an impact on the size of a saved game. You only have ONE saved game that you can continue playing from the last checkpoint. We will save your game for 3 months – and saved games older than 3 months will be deleted. This seems reasonable – if you haven’t gone back to your game for 3 months, you probably forgot about it. We can’t let these huge saves accumulate indefinitely – we learned from experience that never mind how many servers and disk we’re throwing at it, it’s never enough. When the database runs out of space, all the players suffer because checkpoints don’t work anymore. If anyone has a problem with saved games being deleted after 3 months, please speak up. Enjoy Bot Colony and please Recommend it if you do!
To improve realism and immersion, your conversations with various robots in Bot Colony are now saved as part of the observation database of robots and are accessible through question answering. You can ask what you told a robot, or what a robot overheard previous visitors say. This is in a quest to package Bot Colony text-to-animation technology for VR (this article on Bot Colony on our website goes on more details http://northsideinc.com/index.php/videogames/ ). Bot Colony has to save more than other games: not only the objects that you commanded a robot to move, but also a robot’s observations of people and their actions and what it heard them say (so, a real Big Brother : ). This was how we built the Investigation mission in Intruder, where you’re rewarded with videos of a robot's observations (generated in-engine, by the way). As you may know, Conversation history with a robot is saved and accessible through F10. Conversations are not saved as text, but in our internal logic form in an Object-Oriented database, so you can ask questions on what was said. With the support for checkpoints in Intruder and Arrival, you can CONTINUE from the last checkpoint and save several hours (some players have had more that 500 dialogue exchanges with robots in multi-hour sessions, which says something about engagement). All of this functionality has an impact on the size of a saved game. You only have ONE saved game that you can continue playing from the last checkpoint. We will save your game for 3 months – and saved games older than 3 months will be deleted. This seems reasonable – if you haven’t gone back to your game for 3 months, you probably forgot about it. We can’t let these huge saves accumulate indefinitely – we learned from experience that never mind how many servers and disk we’re throwing at it, it’s never enough. When the database runs out of space, all the players suffer because checkpoints don’t work anymore. If anyone has a problem with saved games being deleted after 3 months, please speak up. Enjoy Bot Colony and please Recommend it if you do!
