A downloadable game for Windows and Linux

As the last human working inside the Humanity For All Group factory, the board wants to challenge you and determine whether it would be better to replace you with an AI‑controlled robot to improve productivity. As such, you need to follow the Main Robot’s instructions to control all the factory robots. 

Perform well, and you will keep your job for now. Fail, and you will be fired immediately.

CONTROLS

InputActions
MouseMove on Main Menu, Game Over and Win screens 
Mouse left clickClick button on Main Menu, Game Over and Win screens 
Left, Up, Right, DownChoose direction while in game 

PRESENTATION

This project is a prototype made in 4 days for the Portfolio Builders Jam - Week #74. The theme was Enwebbed. My interpretation was the following: the player is forced to do something, he has no choice, as if he were stuck in a gang/dealing network. But to counterbalance this approach, which felt a bit too dramatic for my taste, I chose to use robots instead! So the player is forced to repeat what the robot is doing, and his actions have an impact on all the robots in the factory.

My objective was to get my hands on Unreal Engine again after several years and to get familiar with basic stuff like character creation, controls, widget blueprints, level transitions, animations and so on. No AI content or prompts were used during the whole creation, and here it is...

I ended up with a fully playable prototype with a basic game loop, which I consider to be a pretty good re‑introduction to game development.

Of course, I had several ideas in mind that I didn’t have time to implement, such as adding audio (music, audio feedback), VFX (visual feedback), and real props for level building. However, I’m pretty happy because I managed to scope the project correctly considering my 4‑day availability.

If you have any constructive comments (ideas, improvements for this prototype) I would be glad to read them!

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Published 2 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Release date 3 days ago
AuthorAurePixel
GenreRhythm
Made withUnreal Engine
Tags3D, First-Person, No AI, Non violent, Prototype, Robots, Simple, Singleplayer, Unreal Engine
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard
ContentNo generative AI was used

Download

Download
LINUX version 391 MB
Download
WINDOWS version 398 MB

Install instructions

Windows

  1. Download Windows version file.
  2. Unzip IAmTheMachine_WINDOWS.zip file.
  3. Double-click to execute I AM THE MACHINE.exe file.
  4. Enjoy!

Linux

  1. Download LINUX version file.
  2. Unzip IAmTheMachine_LINUX.tar.gz file.
  3. Double-click to execute I AM THE MACHINE.sh file.
  4. Enjoy!

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