Wot I Think: Event[0]

Futureshock: one day in some strange year to come, official site>, a game primarily about simulating conversation between you and a possibly self-aware AI, will seem like a vaguely absurd relic of an innocent past. From my festering chair in the retirement home, I will stave off loneliness by holding convincing conversations with Google Deep Mind or AppleSoft Siri or Sony Zangief or Trumpatron 3000 Gold. A videogame in which I converse with a rudimentary AI that can only really offer canned responses to keywords? Might as well play Space Invaders.

Even so, lost in spacey / chatbot adventure Event<0> has very clever tricks up its sleeve, and hints of where videogame conversation might or should one day go. Its tinman has a heart.

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