Static Sky: And Yet It █████
Rhett Tsai, Justin Bortnick
Literary computer game, 2024-2025
Publisher: Allfather Productions (US)
Static Sky: And Yet It █████ is a literary computer game based on the fear of and resistance to artificial intelligence. It imagines a future ruled by AI world models, where everything is generated by AI, reality is redefined, hometowns are reshaped, and symbols are reoriented.
In this future, the protagonist wears a RV (Real Virtuality) headset that claim to show “reality” within the “virtual.” The seemingly real traces revealed by the RV glasses (such as unfinished noise and uncolored white objects) trigger his mental breakdown and fear of reality.
By depicting this collapse and the disintegration of meaning caused by reality, Static Sky: And Yet It █████ presents a possible future of extreme artificial intelligence. The protagonist’s mental symptoms are a hypothesis about the broader human cognition of the future.
Static Sky is a “walking simulator” style game that takes players into the world of the protagoinst to experience a series of vignettes and scenarios – some from the protagonist’s lived experience, others generated by the generative AI Sekai.
This project is supported by the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
██落在夜空生成以前
蔡宇潇,Justin Bortnick
文学游戏,2024-2025年
Allfather Productions (美国) 发行
《██落在夜空生成以前》是一件文学游戏,它基于对人工智能的恐慌与抵抗力量,想象了一个被人工智能世界模型统治的未来,世界的一切都由人工智能生成,真实被重新定义、家乡被重新塑造、符号被重新指向。
在这一未来中,主角头戴一款宣称能够在由人工智能塑造的「虚拟」中看到「真实」的现实虚拟(RV)眼镜,本作品展现的是主角戴上RV眼镜的一瞬间的意识世界。在这一瞬间内,RV 眼镜显现出的看似真实的痕迹引发了他的精神崩溃和对实存的恐惧。
通过描述这场因真实而起的崩溃与意义瓦解,《██落在夜空生成以前》呈现了一个关于极端性人工智能的可能未来,主角所展现的精神症候则是对未来更广泛的人类认知的假设。
作为一款「步行模拟」风格的游戏,本作品带领玩家进入主人公的意识世界,穿梭于各种情景与片段之中——一些来自于他自身的生活经历,另一些则由生成式人工智能「Sekai」生成。
本项目受到来自匹兹堡大学亚洲研究中心的支持。
CREDITS
Director:
Rhett Tsai (蔡宇潇), Justin Bortnick
3D Artist / Programmer / Sound Artist / Narrative / Design:
Rhett Tsai
Design / Narrative Design / Writing / Proofreading:
Justin Bortnick
Title Graphic Design:
Mofan Zhai (翟莫梵)
VX Adviser:
Xinling Luo (罗心聆)
Special Appearances:
The Painter – Mofan Zhai
The RV woman – Xinling Luo
The Cat in the Alley – Ah Chuan (阿川猫)
Funding Grant:
University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center
Special Thanks:
AIG Studio
Guangli Liu (刘广隶)
Jiahui Wang (王嘉辉)
Lihao Shao (邵立昊)
Peng Wang (王芃)
Mofan Zhai
Full sounds and assets credits inside the game.
Languages
– 简体中文
– English
Recommended System Requirements
– OS: Windows 10 64-bit
– Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
– CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
– RAM: 16GB