Mike Griffin

Designer @North Side Inc

Montreal, QC, CA

Game design, character writing, and production duties for \'Bot Colony _redux\'- Building dialogue encounters and coherent narrative structure- Setting complex AI behaviour for dialogue with objectives- Audio coordinator- Testing.Stage: AlphaPlatform: Windows PC.Game Summary:In Bot Colony_ redux, you\'ve been invited by the Nakagawa Corporation to a beautiful tropical island to help with an investigation. This is no ordinary island: Bot Colony is almost entirely staffed by intelligent robots! There\'s trouble brewing in this high tech paradise: Top secret prototypes have gone missing, and to complicate matters the robots have been updated with untested software. Now they\'re trying to act like people do - including all the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of humanity! Combining investigative intrigue with unrestricted dialogue, Bot Colony _redux lets you talk to dozens of intelligent robot characters using your own words (typed or spoken) to uncover clues and reveal events from their memories. In this game there are no canned dialogue trees to choose from as you play; you can speak creatively to these bots about anything on your mind, and each character has a unique personality to discover. Certain robots also accept your spoken commands to move and manipulate objects.Bot Colony_ redux is being crafted with care in Unreal Engine 5 to deliver a vibrant vision of the near future. The game features North Side Inc.\'s state of the art, custom NLU pipeline, with conversations assisted by GPT-4.1 and brought to life via truly expressive, high quality voices. Speech input is fast and accurate, ensuring smooth communication with the robots during gameplay. North Side proudly offer its own proprietary solutions alongside proven tech to deliver responsive dialogue with characters that are dynamic, witty, and sometimes even completely unhinged!