Senses: Conscious Eclipse

A visual narrative that explores a future where AI develops its own form of consciousness, comparable to that of humans. You start as a robot, on the verge of its own destruction in a futuristic junkyard. You wake up on a conveyor belt, headed towards a furnace, and make choices throughout the game that shape the ending sequences, and ultimately, the fate of this speculative future. The experience was designed to start a conversation around AI and explore the possibilities in a world where humans aren't the only intelligent species. It was created with the assistance of Chat GPT and Nightcafe AI and was programmed in Renpy, a visual novel engine based in Python. The game was developed for Arizona State University's Media Arts and Science's Undergraduate Degree Capstone project.