5/8/2023 0 Comments Cloudpunk dolly![]() ![]() There’s also Comrade Bop, an android activist who has been reprogrammed by Corpsec, the security police force, to only be able to speak in rhyme, undercutting the message he would bring to the people. Trying to make a living selling never-before-seen mechanical animals is the Falconer and his android falcon Norman, the former insisting there has never been an animal known as the falcon before, despite Rania having seen them herself before coming to the city. Octavius Butler, a snooty woman who is prejudiced against everyone all the while claiming she’s not. There’s the stuck-up William, an automaton and one of Rania’s first deliveries who is being dropped off, he thinks, to become a chef but really to be an apartment vacuum cleaner. The cast is quite varied, and fully voiced, with a healthy number of memorable characters. Some are specific to her current assignment, while others are extras that she can run into on the street. In addition to her conversations with the crotchety Control and the naïve but always cheerful Camus, Rania frequently speaks with a large number of characters during her deliveries. The difference is never explicitly made clear, but from context it seems that automatons are AI entities that don’t have autonomous bodies, while androids do have bodies. Cloudpunk differentiates between automatons and androids. Fortunately, she was able to bring Camus’s personality with her and install it as her HOVA’s automaton. Prior to that move she was a flutist, though now she finds no joy in playing and refuses to do so. We soon discover that Rania’s life took a turn for the worse and she was forced to travel to Nivalis to earn money to pay her debts. He is the simulated consciousness of a talking android dog Rania used to own. All conversations are conducted in linear fashion, with no branching trees or dialog choices available to players.Ĭamus is initially Rania’s only friend in the city. Anyone Rania talks to, either in or out of the HOVA, has their portrait displayed in one corner of the screen while speaking. In order to both retrieve and drop off her deliveries, Rania has to leave her HOVA in designated parking lots and then proceed on foot to the actual locations.ĭuring her delivery runs, Rania frequently communicates with Control, her HOVA’s onboard artificial intelligence Camus, or occasionally other characters contacting her (presumably through some headset or implant, as she’s able to communicate with them outside the vehicle as well). She travels to that location in her HOVA – a Cloudpunk-issued air car – receives her parcel, then is given another destination to take the package to. The basic formula is that Cloudpunk Control, an elderly android, assigns Rania a pickup. ![]() Whether that’s true or not is one of many discoveries Rania will make during her first shift working for the titular underground delivery service. It’s generally believed Nivalis is the only metropolitan area left on earth. The protagonist is a young woman from the Eastern Peninsula just recently arrived in “the” big city. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s touching, and sometimes it’s just downright bizarre, but other than being a little wordy at times, it’s always a lot of fun. With an entire city stretching “down 100 miles and up 1000” to roam both by air car and on foot, there’s a lot to see and do in Nivalis. And so too do players in ION LANDS’ 3D voxel-based adventure, Cloudpunk. Here a hovercraft driver for an illicit package delivery service named Rania begins her first night on the job, unaware that she’s about to be drawn into many of those stories all while following her own. ![]() Everyone has a story, and in the course of one night in Nivalis, everything will change.Nivalis, a futuristic metropolis born of Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, and any number of other science fiction influences, is a city of a thousand tales. In this story-based exploration game, you will meet a diverse range of characters including androids, AI and unscrupulous humans at every level of society. No delivery job is too dangerous, and no one is faster than a Cloudpunk driver. You go everywhere, from the Marrow below to the spires that pierce the grey clouds high above before scraping the edge of the troposphere. This is your first night working for Cloudpunk, the semi-legal delivery company based in the sprawling city of Nivalis. ![]()
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