I recently purchased what the developer describes as a “high-quality, text-based, multiple-choice game” - or what I like to call a gamebook - from choiceofgames, for my Android phone, called Choice of Robots, after seeing some recommendations around the internet. The game is also available for iOS and PC, via Steam, and it’s a gamebook spanning about 30 years, where you start out as a graduate student trying to build a robot. The choices in the game determine not just how your life turns out, but also how your robots will affect the world. You can build giant kill-bots, or you can try to build robots to help humanity. I’ve played through it a couple of times, and enjoyed it a lot, so I figured we could do a community playthrough here, where we take a vote on each choice, and see how it turns out.
I’ll type out the text here, list the options, and then wait 24 hours for people to vote, before moving on, although I’m sure people understand that depending on my schedule (which is not overly busy at the moment), it might occasionally take a little longer than 24 hours. The character, as well as the robot he builds, also has some stats. These appear in the game both as a number and a descriptor, and I was thinking I’d post just the descriptors after every choice, but if people really want the numbers too, I guess we can do that.
Without further ado, here’s the first choice. This is a short one:
Where are you?
[ol]
[li]In the court of the Egyptian god Anubis, answering for my sins.
[/li][li]On a war-torn battlefield, with a robotic Statue of Liberty.
[/li][li]On a cliff in Ireland, watching the sun set with a robot companion.
[/li][li]On a utopian beach ruled by a godlike cloud of robots.
[/li][/ol]
In the court of the Egyptian god Anubis, answering for my sins.
I would like to keep this fantastical since I fully expect to experience 2 - On a war-torn battlefield, with a robotic Statue of Liberty in the next 10 years.
If we can stick with “high tech in ancient Egypt” as a theme, there’s a possibility that we wind up in Stargate and Kurt Russell shows up at some point. So dreamy. . .
(P.S. - I just couldn’t watch the show. I tried, I really did. But the movie is too perfect exactly as-is)
I’ve played through a few times on my phone and saw a bunch of endings. I’ll just toss in votes for what I think I did the first time, which I’m pretty sure was option 3.