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To protect our independence, we are dependent of our friends using the site. We run on donations averaging around 6 USD (5 Euro). If everyone reading this gave the price of a cup of coffee, our fundraiser would be made easier. If Abandonia is useful to you, take one minute to keep it online for another year. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Abandonia. Beneath A Steel Sky (BASS) is set in a post-apocalyptic Australia where you're an orphan living with a tribe in the wastelands the 'gap' when a helicopter comes to take you to the enormous Union City. The game starts with the helicopter crashing down in the city and you making your escape into one of the large tall plants.

Beneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 cyberpunk science-fiction point-and-click adventure game developed by Revolution Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS and Amiga home computers. The game was made available as freeware for PC platforms in 2003. Set in a dystopian future. Beyond a Steel Sky, the long-awaited sequel to Revolution. Adventure Beneath a Steel Sky (in case you.

To discover who you really are and why you were taken to the city.BASS was the second adventure game made by Revolution and they clearly learned from their first game Lure of the Temptress. The interface has been improved a great deal and the overall look and style of the game is miles better. They also had help from comic book artist Dave Gibbons (known for Watchmen, The Green Lantern, etc.) who helped with the design of the game. He was clearly a great choice: not only did he draw a short comic for the game, he also designed all the backgrounds and you only need to look at the screenshots to see how wonderful those are. Dripping with detail and atmosphere, it made the world of BASS come alive.I won't spoil the story for you though, since it's the strongest aspect of the game: figuring out who you are, how you ended up in the gap as a child, why Security is after you and figuring out how to get out of the city.

Along with your little robot Joey you'll be exploring the city from top to bottom: from the grim upper factories to ancient abandoned subway tunnels. On the way you'll be meeting many interesting and colourful characters who all live their own lives. Thanks to Revolution's Virtual Theater System they walk around, take elevators, go home to rest, go to work, etc.While the screenshots may be a bit misleading, BASS is not all doom and gloom.

Your sarcastic and witty robot Joey will often bring a smile to your face not to mention the ludicrous nature of many of Union City's inhabitants: a surgeon who is addicted to laughing gas, a very energetic insurance salesman, a plant worker who seems to have an unhealthy love for clip boards - and those are just three examples out of many more!The game doesn't suffer from obscure and illogical puzzles either: most solutions are quite logical and while they're not always obvious, discovering what to do is always satisfying. The easy interface (left click to look, right click to use) means you'll never get frustrated either. The game cleverly guesses what you want to do. Click on a door and it will open it.

Click on a person and you'll talk to him. You may think this is a standard system these days but BASS was one of the first if not THE first game to use it.In the end this is one of the best adventure games you can try.

Revolution made this freeware a few years ago so you have absolutely no reason not to play it! While it's a little on the short side, it's filled with quality from start to finish. I can't recommend this any more!The version you can download here is the disk version which has no speech or intro. You can download the CD version over at for free.Please also read the Graphic Novel which you can download at the top.

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It shows a short history of what happens before the game starts.Optimal Settings- cycles: at least 15000 but the game runs just as well with 'auto' or 'max' cycles.If you bump into the copy protection, be sure to download the Protection Codes at the top.

“That’s a thing I see in comics all the time,” echoes Gibbons. “When you respect the continuity, you make all the fans happy, and that’s good, but it keeps out all the new people.

It’s a real problem at times. With ‘Beyond,’ we’re trying to make a game that people who maybe weren’t even alive in 1994 can appreciate.

If you’ve played the original, it will enrich the experience, but it isn’t absolutely necessary.”In accordance with more modern approaches to the adventure genre exhibited by “walk-’em-ups” like “Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture,” Cecil says that “Beyond” will feature fully 3D environments that the player can stroll through and interact with, with full camera control. Gibbons takes great pains to note that the studio has developed an entirely new tool to facilitate a comic-book aesthetic while still taking advantage of this newfound depth and technology. While Cecil isn’t comfortable talking more specific than that just yet, he says that the team’s goal is to embody the spirit of the adventure games that put them on the map, such as their lengthy “Broken Sword” series, emphasizing that the non-violent nature of the genre has allowed the studio to garner a diverse fanbase broader than that of more traditional action games.

Despite the duo’s stated goal of producing a work that stands apart from its well-known predecessor, “Beyond” stars the returning protagonist of the original game, a small-time engineer named Robert Foster. While “Beneath” dealt with the rampant sentience and breakdown of a “Neuromancer”-esque AI called LINC that haunted an entire city, Cecil and Gibbons say that its follow-up will deal with more pressing questions of social control and privacy under the watchful eye of the supposedly-benevolent, omniscient artificial-intelligence that Foster installed at the conclusion of the first game. In particular, Cecil describes how an AI might view the ideal human society by referring to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a famous triangle-shaped construct in sociology that attempts to explain how the fundamental needs of human beings build off each other. Since an AI would ostensibly follow all those rules as consistently as possible, it would rigidly adhere to that hierarchy at all times, even when it might seem counterproductive.“You look at something like a social credit system, for example,” says Cecil. “Now, us in the West look at those kinds of systems, and we think of them as particularly Orwellian, very scary stuff. But when you look at some of the data, you’ll find that some of these systems are surprisingly. And when you ask them why, they say things like, ‘well, it means that people have an incentive not to litter, to act more orderly in society.’ To an AI that tries to view these things ‘objectively,’ that sort of system makes a lot of sense.

The entire game is about how an AI would look at human society and try to make it into a utopia, and what might happen because of that.”. Throughout our interview, Cecil repeatedly references George Orwell’s classic work “1984” as a major touchstone for this upcoming game’s themes.

But as Cecil himself admits, while Orwell’s work gave a vocabulary to the sophisticated spin-techniques that would spring from the decades that followed, the totalitarian doom-state that Orwell described has only materialized in select countries, and often for limited periods of time. Instead, he points to another dystopian work as a source of inspiration, Terry Gilliam’s cult 1985 film “Brazil,” which depicts the byzantine world of bureaucracy as flashy and absurd in its inherent nihilism. Cecil says that the anarchic tone of the film helped him inject the signature dashes of humor in “Beneath,” a major part of its lasting charm. Though the two creators admit that building a game around these ever-relevant issues might invite some controversy, they say they’re trying to ladle them in as thoughtfully as possible. “We’re trying to reflect society without making too many judgments,” Cecil says. “This isn’t supposed to be an extremely political work or anything, but it does deal with these social issues. It’s the most ambitious game that we’ve ever written at Revolution, for sure, but it’s not trying to push any agenda.

Rather, we want to explore them.”“I’m certainly not trying to write a political tract,” Gibbons says, laughing. “More of an interesting story.”As the two developers continue to work on the hotly-anticipated game – which has been rumored for quite a while now – they marvel back on the singular impact that “Beneath” has had on their careers, even 25 years later. For Gibbons, as a creator who usually works in another medium, the most striking difference between the two experiences is the level of tech involved. As he recalls, the studio in York didn’t even really have internet back in the early ‘90s. “Being able to post something in Slack and get instant feedback is just so much better,” he says. “It’s like night and day.”. According to Cecil’s recollection, when Microsoft introduced Windows 98, “Beneath” ceased functioning on many computers, but the studio was too wrapped up in the development of the first “Broken Sword” game to pay too much notice.

It was only after a computer science student named Ludvig Strigeus unveiled a piece of software known as ScummVM in 2001 that allowed enthusiasts to play their aging adventure games on a modern-day PC that the game experienced a second wave of interest. Cecil attributes the decision to make “Beneath” available as a free download in 2003 as one of the core reasons why so many people continue to clamor for a sequel. “It was the only game that a lot of people knew about that was free at the time,” he says.

“We weren’t trying to, but we got a lot of interest.” For those fans, Cecil says he’s glad that they’re finally going to be able to fulfill those wishes – he just hopes the game can live up to the now-mounting hype.