Talk:Tunnels/@comment-7706473-20140810121052/@comment-7706473-20140903121736

Warning! The magician is leaving the curtain, as it were! Spoilers ahead! Sort of.

The long and the short of it is - I wanted to write a story that examined the idea of a modern-day Polybius; something shady, something that felt as if it could conceivably a slightly more realistic and intelligent attempt from a military or private organization into creating a program that affects the user, stores data for it's own surreptitious purposes, or perhaps itself has some bizarre, sinister purpose. I settled on the idea that it might be a self-learning AI, one that is not truly intelligent, especially by the standards of Hollywood or popular fiction, but capable of learning and modifying itself and it's scenario to the player.

Binefrons was me attempting to do something authentically 'weird-feeling', though my original and hack-y idea was simply having NORAD in ROT13, wahahaha! The idea is that Binefrons was attempting to converse and gain data from the narrator, or perhaps relaying the data to a team of analysts and the like. I feel that the 'market', if you will, for games that collect data or serve a third party is all but growing in this day and age - as per usual, that's what I see as 'horrific'.

Tunnels the game is just my love-letter to genres of games gone before, of course. There's more still, but I think that's a concise enough explanation for now!