The 27th Chamber: A Game about Time

I asked OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate 31 different videogame ideas, one for each day of Blaugust, each dealing in some way with that particular day of the month. Here’s its idea for August 27th: “The 27th Chamber”. Number: 27. Genre: Metroidvania. Title: “The 27th Chamber”. Outline: You play as a member of an elite group of soldiers who are sent on a mission to investigate a strange energy signature emanating from an abandoned research facility. ...

August 27, 2022 · 4 min · 734 words · Tipa

Star Trek Online: S2E5 "Night of the Comet" (spoilers)

Time is a lot more resilient than people think. Free will? Free will is a joke. There’s a reason Starfleet doesn’t like people flitting back and forth through time – it’s because when you do, you realize what a sham this “reality” thing is. And by-the-by? The Federation and the Klingons have a secret slingshot mechanism set up around a star in the Eta Eridani sector. Pretty much everyone is going back and forth through time whenever they like. We’re not supposed to tell you about that, but we’re the Federation News Service, and YOU have a right to know. ...

November 14, 2010 · 6 min · 1270 words · Tipa

Star Trek Online: S2E4 "Everything Old is New Again"

After defeating a rogue hologram and a couple hundred Devidians in last week’s episode, “What Lies Beneath”, the Federation News Service traveled into the past to take on the deadliest enemy of them all – Starfleet! With some pluck, courage and help from an unexpected friend, we did manage to complete our mission. The wraith-like Devidians infest the Ferengi-owned Drozana station, which serves both the Klingons and the Federation from its orbit deep within the Klingon-Federation Neutral Zone. We’d tracked their incursion down to an interdimensional portal deep within the station that appeared to lead into the past. ...

November 7, 2010 · 5 min · 899 words · Tipa

Star Trek Online: What Lies Beneath

There were Bad Things prowling the depths of Drozana Station’s maintenance decks in Star Trek Online’s Halloween-themed episode, “What Lies Beneath”. Well, what DOES lie beneath? The Ferengi who run the station have no clue at all. THEY aren’t stupid enough to head down to the lower depths. They can always find some suckers to do it for them if they just wait long enough – suckers like the hapless crew of the USS Monterey. ...

November 5, 2010 · 3 min · 601 words · Tipa