Choice of Robots

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The robots you design will change the world Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army Choice of Robots is an epic 300,000 word interactive sci fi novel by Kevin Gold, where your choices control the story It s entirely text based without graphics or sound effects and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination Play out thirty years of your life as a brilliant robot maker, from graduate school near the present day to a future in which your robots have changed everything Depending on your choices, your robots may be independent or obedient, clumsy or graceful, empathic or cold and you yourself may live to an old age happily married or alone with only robots to comfort you Play as male or female, gay or straight, with nine characters to romance, four alternate climax chapters, and over seventy achievements to unlock Build a unique robot character you choose everything from its shape to what it calls you Instigate or prevent a robotic uprising Teach your robots to love humanity, or disdain it Build an artificial intelligence suitable to take control of the world s governments Start a war against the United States, and win Marry a human or an advanced robot, and start a family Best Read [ Choice of Robots ] Author [ Kevin Gold ] – kino-fada.fr A deeply moving piece of interactive fiction that really hinges on your choices Each of the separate paths that your robot can take military, grace, empathy and autonomy each present their own ethical and emotional themes and guide the endgame of the story in massively different ways With a total g...I finished reading playing Choice of Robots for the first time and was left in tears I d connected so strongly with my character and the family I built especially my partner that my ending overwhelmed me I could not stop readi...If you re undecided whether to play or not to play all I can say is this I have finished my first play trough and can t wait to start on the second one Some decisions I made during my first time were really though ones and the second time around I m eager to find out how it will change the outcome If I can change the outcome.The story is really well written and very engaging I ve played like this was real life and can only recommend you do the same at least the first time around.Great story If you re undecided whether to play or not to play all I...This is actually the third time I ve read played CoR A truly fascinated by exercise is choice and consequence that raised some questions about technology, robotics and AI that we REALLY need to think about.As a game it has glowing reviews on Steam, and since it was Christmas I thought I d treat myself Had I known this this was a short old school choose your own adventure book I d be a lot happier with the experience As it was, the first run through 3 hours was frustrating, as the narrative seemed to be funnelling me in a given direction, and seemed to beabout relationships than robots I was also frustrated with what I initially perceived to be narrative flaws, and now understand as As a game it has glowing reviews on Steam, and since it was Christmas I thought I d treat myself Had I known this this was a short old school choose your own adventure book I d be a lot happier with the experience As it was, the first run through 3 hours was frustrating, as the narrative seemed to be funnelling me in a given direction, and seemed to beabout relationships than robots I was also frustrated with what I initially perceived to be narrative flaws, and now understand as limitations with the underlying game engine in so much as it is building sentences strings on the fly, and thus much of the emotional colour you see is adhoc rather than intentional However this does leave large gaps in the narrative itself, especially as regards it s overall structure Though in hind...Far and away the best, most emotionally engaging and resonant choose your adventure story I have read in a long time Choices have unprecedented impact, and I never once felt like I was being funneled towards a particular result or ending The gender neutral roles are implemented very effectively especially considering so many of the key roles are played by robots and while a few wrong choices do end the story, for the most part it felt like there wasn t a single right answer, which really ga Far and away the best, most e...5Believe it or not, this obscure little gem of interactive fiction is what got me into reading science fiction It s not the best book I ve ever read, it s not the best game I ve ever played, but it engaged my imagination unlike anything else I ve ever read, and I love it for that The writing was fast paced and engaging, tackling multiple near future possibilities while you guided your character through his life as a robot inventor It managed to inspire personal connection from me with the int 5Believe it or not, this obscure little gem of interactive fiction is what got me into reading science fiction It s not the best book I ve ever read, it s not the best game I ve ever played, but it engaged my imagination unlike anything else I ve ever read, and I love it for that The writing was fast paced and engaging, tackling multiple near future possibilities while you guided your character through his life as a robot inventor It managed to inspire personal con...This only gets four stars from me because of it s genre Its overall quality isdeserving of three, but it s fantastic for a CYOA book that tracks your decisions across the book It s lovely and occasionally employs emotion well, though not as well as I would have hoped This is mostly due to lack of character development, which is sparse and mostly ineffective Stran...This book was a lot of fun It really is like a choose your own adventure story, but it s highly interactive, it gets you involved and it does its job very well I ended the story at the age of 54, with a level of 94% humanity, 4 Fame, 8 ...I don t really know I liked it But then again I didn t I thoroughly enjoyed it I just didn t like that I couldn t go back once a decision was made, you would have had to restart the whole game novel.Edit ...

Choice of Robots
  • English
  • 25 May 2017
  • Interactive ebook
  • Kevin Gold
  • Choice of Robots