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So I was checking all these stories, different movies, different books that portray how AI expands into the future. I wanted to include some of that in the game as well. He describes AI as having a symbiotic relationship with humans and then together they colonize space, and they have a special bond.

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Like when the TerminatorAI kills all the humans and we all get exterminated, that's an obvious one, but also The Culture series from Iain Banks.

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I've researched the different outcomes in films, books, and TV programs that portray what happens when an AI becomes sentient. Like, what happens when AIs become sapient, what we do when the technological singularity comes up. I have an interest and experience in academic AI, so I wanted to make a game about AI and the implications on the future of humanity if AI becomes a real thing. Q: What was the actual inspiration for the game? Were there specific games that influenced it more than others?Ī: I mentioned the whole wanting to do a game inside the virtual world, so all the movies I liked as a kid. It's not every day that you hire a band known for their work on No Man's Skyto create a user interface for a game, and then have them do the music as an afterthought, but that's what happened. Now they're involved in the soundtrack and the audio design as well as the user interface, which is really crazy. I asked them to join the project to make the user interface for Recompile, and they did.Ī year later, Richard was having issues with time, he didn't have time to do all the music because he was also doing production and level design, so I asked 65 Days of Static - 'Paul, can you maybe provide the guest track?', and then they did, and it was also amazing, and it blew me away. I didn't realize what you can do with my UI framework. I said it was fine, then I looked at the music video and it was amazing, it really blew me away. That's my custom UI system, and I open-sourced that, then 65 Days of Static discovered it, and they wanted to make their music videos based on this and emailed me asking for my permission. In the trailer, you have the command line terminal computer 1980s art style kind of stuff. Then, I used the prototype to pitch to publishers, and from there I thought 'That's Recompile, that's what it's going to be.' It went viral, with 12,000 views, and knew it was good and people really liked it.

I think we did the prototype for the version you can see now in 2018, and then we posted it on Twitter. I realized we were really good at making action games, so we made Recompile. So the first prototype I did was a turn-based strategy game inside a computer, but still had the gated progression and mechanics in there, but it didn't work out too well because I'm bad at making puzzles and strategy design. I always wanted to make a metroidvania-style game, but it was the case that I knew I wanted to do progression that was gated, but I didn't know what kind of game it would be. I experimented with some ideas and prototyped a lot of things. As a child, I've always been interested in Tron, The Matrix, books, and stuff like that.

I always wanted to make a game about being inside the virtual world, inside a computer. A: I started working on the project and prototyping the game in 2014, so it was over six years ago.