It's all in your head, Part 6

[tangostorm]

I don't know how Subversion will be, but it would be nice if every player should have its virtual home in the city and deal with other players forming a conspiracy or governmental task force to prevent net crimes or private organisations that sell crucial information or software.

[Rkiver]

I don't know how Subversion will be, but it would be nice if every player should have its virtual home in the city and deal with other players forming a conspiracy or governmental task force to prevent net crimes or private organisations that sell crucial information or software.

It is not Uplink 2.

[Nutter]

thought he was referring to playstation "home"

[Lowkay]

You know what would be uber awesome...?
The real idea...

[Lowkay]

Okies so I go to the google place and look up the definition for the subversionary thing... ... ...
Looks like we will be looking at some kind of corruption, overthrowing the nicely created urban populous...
This time around we're in charge -- well, will be...

[prophile]

It's actually just a cunningly disguised version control system.

Each one of those buildings represents a revision, and uh, the insides of the buildings have the files. *nods*

[Lowkay]

Now that would be classy, everybody playing subversion is altering the game for everybody else by creating new revisions of the game, resulting in a changing city... Kind of like a giant open-source project in which not everybody knows what they're doing but change things anyway...

[BrianBlessed]

Now that would be classy, everybody playing subversion is altering the game for everybody else by creating new revisions of the game, resulting in a changing city... Kind of like a giant open-source project in which not everybody knows what they're doing but change things anyway...

Just like real life.....

[MaxPlank]

I would like to put a wager on guessing what subversion will be..
I think it will be a corporate espionage game with similarities to films like Cypher and Max Headroom.
You will probably have to get agents into enemy corporations to undermine there activity. Perhaps hijack shipments and steal documents. I think a big part of the game will be moving your agents around to find secret documents/plant bugs without them getting court... you will have to capture enemy agents in your own buildings by investing in security guard/scanners/security doors etc. You will use your agents to get a competitive advantage over your corporate enemies.
What leads me to this conclusion... well the early screens of office layout remind me of the scene from Max Headroom where he has to escape a tower block guided by his colleague who has a schematic of the building on her computer. Secondly it would fit in well with introversions other games.
anyway if I'm wrong I'll make this game myself because it would be too cool...

[shinygerbil]

Perhaps it's a game where all you are given is a procedurally-generated model of a city, and the random seed it was created from. Your task is to write, from scratch, a generator which produces the same city to within 99% accuracy. ;P

[Ace Rimmer]

Or, the game is really this "blog" and we're already playing by submitting ideas (unaware of it). The name fits.

[martin]

Perhaps it's a game where all you are given is a procedurally-generated model of a city, and the random seed it was created from. Your task is to write, from scratch, a generator which produces the same city to within 99% accuracy. ;P

awesome!

[xander]

Or, the game is really this "blog" and we're already playing by submitting ideas (unaware of it). The name fits.

ilovebees?

xander

[Cooper42]

I keep trying to tell you people that it's a Cube inspired game with the indoors being a certain level/s and the outdoors another level/set of levels.

Hypercube: Source

[Darksun]

I don't know how Subversion will be, but it would be nice if every player should have its virtual home in the city and deal with other players forming a conspiracy or governmental task force to prevent net crimes or private organisations that sell crucial information or software.

It is not Uplink 2.

Well, no, but comments have indicated that Subversion is going to be somewhat a blend of the previous three games (UpDefWinia!). I just have a feeling that IV may be very much going back to their roots with this game. Although it'll be far from Uplink 2, I wouldn't be suprised if it had elements of corporate espionage and hacking in it (which is what most people seem to be suggesting for the theme - I can't remember if at this stage that much has been states or if it's purely conjecture)