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''Bot Colony'' is an episodic adventure game by Montreal developer North_Side_Inc. In the game, the player converses in English with robot characters, using typing or speech-to-text. The game is played through a PC client, whose major functions are running the 3D world, speech-to-text, and communication with the server, the game's language processing and reasoning running on a server farm. After early prototypes in 2009 and a failed Kickstarter campaign in October 2013, the game was featured on Steam Greenlight in November 2013. The first two episodes were released on Steam on June 17, 2014 as an Early Access game (). The game is loosely based on the novel by the same name, published in December 2010. On January 29, 2015 the developer announced the game would be discontinued on March 15, 2015 due to poor sales (). After fans expressed disappointment and showed their support through purchases of eBooks and Steam keys () North Side decided to keep the game alive. Valve restored the Buy button on September 14, 2015 () and Bot Colony is again available for purchase from the Steam store (). ==Plot== ''Bot Colony'' is set on Agrihan, an island in the Marianas in the Pacific, in 2021. Agrihan has become the private island of Nakagawa Corp, a large Japanese robot company, which relocated its R&D and manufacturing facilities there. Nakagawa’s fierce competitor, the North Korean KHT Corp, was relentlessly attempting to spy on Nakagawa in Japan. Nakagawa relocated its facilities to Agrihan to accommodate its rapid growth, but also to have a sanctuary out of KHT’s reach. A 900 m tall volcano covered with lush jungle rises from the centre of the island, surrounded by pristine beaches and coves. The traditional Japanese village on the island’s western shore contrasts with the skyscrapers housing Nakagawa’s R&D and living quarters on the northern side. People intermix naturally with robots in Agrihan. As Nakagawa’s robots will play a major role in the colonization of Mars, they need to achieve a high degree of autonomy. The player takes on the role of a specialist in robot cognition, who occasionally accepts challenging assignments involving white-collar crime. Nakagawa Corp calls the player and asks them to investigate the disappearance of three new-generation sensors. The player is warned that KHT may have infiltrated the island and will stop at nothing to get its hands on the sensors. The game starts with the player landing in Agrihan, an area mostly staffed by robots and hence known as "Bot Colony". The player can fly through the island in a futuristic hovercraft, sail around it, or use rickshaw robots to move on its roads. Robots travel between facilities on the island using a specially designed monorail. The game explores the circumstances of "artificially intelligent" robots reprogrammed by a devious spy to "do as people do",〔 and to learn about human motivation and emulate human behaviour. While engaged in the adventure, the player probes the boundaries of knowledge and understanding of robots, and trades knowledge about humanity for robot information that will enable him to move on in the game. The player’s mission evolves from finding the sensors to chasing the North Korean spy who has indeed infiltrated the island. The first part of the Bot Colony novel relates how KHT managed to infiltrate Bot Colony.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bot Colony novel - excerpt )〕 Towards the game’s conclusion, the player is instrumental in preventing the outbreak of global war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bot Colony」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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