SETTING
PLACEHOLDER's setting takes place in dystopian super city known as Initium Novum. The city is teeming with movement, lights, and "life. The year is 2099, technology is on the rise and human interaction is on a downward slope. Bright lights, holograms, and advertisements make up most of what the eye can see. More intimately the game begins with our playable character in a home of a flourishing family, and this is where we will keep on coming back to.
PLOT
The playable character, #01 a female android with an experimental AI developed to assist families and those in need. Upon activation the android begins it's duties as usual, but the limitations of 01 are quickly realized due to her "family" expecting too much of the ai's first iteration. A few mistakes here and there cause the family to talk of a replacement, and this is where the game really begins as 01 finally learns her first emotion, fear, the fear of being replaced by something that is her, but not really her. She begins to develop coding inconsistencies as her striving for self preservation conflicts with her programming. This leads to 01 being able to make more and more questionable decisions as her coding becomes more and more corrupted.
MECHANICS
The game will play with a 3rd person point of view and operate as open experience. The character will be free to move around it's area as they wish and interact with NPCs and objects to get a better feel of the world and to build relationships. The game will also have many conversations in which 01 will have different choices on what to say. As the story progresses and choices are made, there will be a meter which keeps track of programming inconsistencies which will act as a sort of karma meter. Players may choose to become more corrupted or free as they will have more freedom of choice, or they may try to stay true to their programming at the risk of being replaced. There will also be quick time events to replace the control scheme when the game becomes a bit more, "intense." There will of course be main quests, but a more adventurous player may find numerous sidequests, collectibles,easter eggs, and may even hear conversations that would affect the 01. It should also be noted that 01 will change across the experience depending on the player and that data corruption is not necessarily a bad thing.