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Hi all, First we must extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who played, wishlisted, or followed the original Bot Colony game. You're the reason we're still here and just over a month away from the release of Bot Colony Redux on Steam . ːsteamthumbsupː While it was interesting to pr
Greetings all, We're happy to announce the release of the official trailers for Bot Colony _Redux, along with new details regarding the game’s upcoming multilingual support and next Playtest. Here's the official trailer for Bot Colony _Redux . We also have a new, extended gamepla
Hi all, We have a development update today for the new year (pardon the radio silence!). Bot Colony _redux is making steady progress, leveraging improved technology to deliver new features. Robot refresh Following our sweeping, game-wide remaster of environments in every episode
Hello all! We are very pleased to share with you a few screenshots of our continuous hard work at reimagining Bot Colony with the tools and technology we have at our disposal today. Today's Spotlight: Arrival! And without further ado... Bot Colony _redux "Arrival" Screenshots We
Welcome Playtesters! Thank you for your interest in the Bot Colony _redux Playtest . For this first phase of the Playtest, we have a slice of the game's third episode for you to sample (and feedback!). This episode takes place on an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean, recently abandone
Hey Bot Colony fans! We wanted to share a look at how Bot Colony _redux is evolving with a gameplay clip from our new Humanity Test , which will be part of the Playtest branch ( sign up here! ). This short scene features two AI interrogators testing whether a player is truly huma
Welcome to the future of NPC interaction. In Bot Colony _redux, you don’t pick from scripted choices. You talk, and they respond intelligently. 🎤 Real-time voice dialogue with AI NPCs 🤖 No dialogue trees. No pre-written scripts. 🔍 Investigate and command. 🧠 Every word matters
View game page We are thrilled (!) to invite you to try the first public demo of Bot Colony _redux as part of Steam Next Fest ! This is your chance to experience our signature real-time AI-powered conversations with NPCs, with no dialogue trees and no scripts; just whatever YOU w
AI-driven communication with NPCs were recently featured in a high-profile Unreal Engine demo. But this vision has deep roots in indie development, too. Bot Colony _redux is our reimagining of the 2014 cult classic Bot Colony , fully rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5. It features real-t
We are excited to share a sneak-peek into the visual transformation our game has seen over the past months and years of hard work! 🤩 Without further ado... ta-da! 🥳 What you see here is a 1:1 comparison of the same scene , one from earlier in development, and the other a comple
Whether you're a long-time fan of the original or totally new to the world of advanced natural language interaction with robots, this is your chance to experience a taste of what's coming. The demo features the same groundbreaking vision we've always shared — now with improved te
Thank you for your support! It will soon be 11 years since Bot Colony was launched - that's a LONG time, and I don't know how many of you still remember the game. I thank everybody who played Bot Colony and gave us money and/or feedback, positive or negative. We worked on the gam
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Grabbing objects in Unreal 5 Bot Colony was released on Early Access in June 2014. It was built on top of the Havok Vision engine. To get a character to grab an object, we had to start with an FK ( Forward Kinematics, like extend arm to reach the vase) animation and switch to IK
We're not just porting Bot Colony to Unreal, we're developing a new, better game. Owners of Bot Colony on Vision will get access for free to the new game (Bot Colony Redux, or some other name). Bot Colony on Unreal will be crisper, faster and more responsive than on Vision. Dialo
You can help by answering the Questions after watching the video, thanks! This is initial concept for the Sandbox setting (initially, next to the Intruder house) and the mood. The basic theme is a robot/android party where you can do fun things. It's a sandbox that you control (a
FIRST PEEK AT RIOT Each Bot Colony episode is a stand-alone game with its own setting, a chapter in the story. Riot follows Intruder and Arrival. It was never released before and will be published directly on Unreal. Riot continues the Bot Colony adventure - the Hunter Bot on whi
The Bot Colony airport upper level looks nice and crisp in UE4. We brought our Ayame character from Intruder into the airport lower level to test porting animations from the Vision version (in the previous announcement, we used Mixamo animations) We'll continue to keep you posted
As the Bot Colony original engine (Havok Vision) was discontinued, switching engine was mandatory in order to launch any new episodes. It just didn't make sense to us to make the big investment required for Riot and beyond with a discontinued engine. We've done some tests towards
Sorry it took so long! We’ve made some significant improvements. Please read KNOWN PROBLEMS - we need your feedback! We made the call to give you something NOW, even if not all the polish we wanted is there. NEW FEATURES You no longer lose your progress in Arrival after 1 - 2 hou