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Neonova

As an Administration A.I. of a deep space probe, you're tasked with scanning and reporting back about a new galaxy. You'll weather cosmic events, witness oddities of the universe, and fly through points of interest to find answers for the base station.

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Developer
Henri Malahieude
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Henri Malahieude
Release
August 16, 2024
1 year and 350 days ago
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About the Game

Game Details

  • With only a terminal to access satellite functionality, experience the unforgiving void of space
  • Properly manage power systems in order to survive cosmic events



  • Reveal points of interest and quickly scan them with your camera while you have power
  • Piece together cryptic manuals and communications to understand the mission you've been given
  • A slow experience designed to be completed in 2-3 hours
  • Horror based on Paranoia, Dread, and Lovecraftian monsters

Story Overview

Administration A.I. will be woken up and terminal access block will be lifted once base station can no longer manually control satellite. The A.I. will have access to the satellite's internal status management, as well as the external camera system. The remaining systems (Ion Thrusters, Course Planning, Celestial Body Tracking, etc) will be given to separate A.I. Nodes and background processes due to their non-general intelligence need.



Administration A.I. is an "Artificial General Intelligence" selected from the 5012th Generation of Neuro-Evolution Training. As A.G.I. stability and lucidness is notoriously difficult to maintain, skip commands and music has been installed within the satellite. The individual songs have been specially chosen due to stabilizing effects on similar A.G.I. systems.

Credits

  • raysan5's Raylib@v5.0
  • Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
  • Inspired by David Szymanski's Iron Lung
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