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Digital Gaming => Computer Gaming => Topic started by: spelk on May 22, 2015, 06:40:37 PM

Title: OBEY
Post by: spelk on May 22, 2015, 06:40:37 PM
http://obeygame.com/



Very amusing online game, where the asynchronous play really makes the tension mount.

It's sort of a game of diplomacy, with your co-operation with your own bunnies being more important than what the Robot overlord is doing.

You have to drop what the Overlord wants off into the feed bin, and you get some money and he gets some resources with which to control you with.

If you have a collar on, he can zap you immediately. If not, you run the risk of him lasering you down.

You're also competing with your own kind, but in order to subvert the robot (by going in the front door and controlling the laser robot) you'll have to work together to get someoine up front.

The robot earns his cash by time ticking over in control. So the bunnies have to balance their money by obeying, and disobeying enough to get into the tower to become the overlord.

Its a simple game premise, but it really makes for interesting combinations of play. The Robot become a paranoid powerhouse, with only a limited view on the landscape - so the tension builds and builds. And as the bunnies you have to follow orders, seemingly, but whilst doing so, engineer some sort of takeover plot..

All very groovey for a cheap indie title.

Community playing it seem very helpful at the minute, although meglomania does run rife once people are in the Robot tower.

Voice chat is often a negotiation between the servile rodents and the robot.

The Robot can't go apeshit and kill everyone all the time, because if the bunnies collect the corpses of their burned brethren they can put them in the feed bin and the Robot loses a lot of money and hence resources to control them with.

The Robot has to call in dropships with resurrected bunnies and new resources in. The dropships can be crashed by the bunnies buying Uranium and stacking it inside the dropship near the pilots.

It's mad, simple-ish mechanics, but the strategies employed can go haywire.