Hey cyberpunks, it's finally here: the free Silicon Dreams content update "Fatality & Fame" is out now! You can grab it via Steam or itch.io at a 20% discount! We've talked a lot about how we think this game is ripe with stories to be harvested, in this update we're pleased to introduce you to [...]
Continue reading "Fatality & Fame is out now!!!"Hello again, cyberpunks! Time is flying by but we wanted to take just a few minutes to share some exciting news with you! The Fatality & Fame update is coming very soon to Silicon Dreams and will be released as a free update to the base game! Keep reading below to see everything that will [...]
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Salutations, cyberpunks! Danny and Jamie here to tell you what this Clockwork Bird’s been up to since we released Silicon Dreams. The short version is: critics loved it, it sold ok but not great, and we’re planning a free update with new content in the next few weeks! (More info on that to come in [...]
Continue reading "Silicon Dreams: A Micro-Postmortem"Greetings, cyberpunks. Our new cyberpunk interrogation sim “Silicon Dreams” is launching as we speak! What’s it about, you ask? Three words: tears in rain. “The best Blade Runner game that we've gotten in years.” - TheGamer.com Silicon Dreams is a narrative cyberpunk thriller about interrogating rogue androids. In a corporate-controlled dystopian future where the lines [...]
Continue reading "Cybernoir thriller “Silicon Dreams” is out now!"We’ve been chipping away at this game about androids and feelings and megacorps for over 18 months. Now there are only 4 days left before Silicon Dreams spills its circuitry onto the Steam store, and we wanted to take a step back and look at what the game was when we began planning, what it [...]
Continue reading "Games are best when they’re weird"Howdy cyberpunks! We’ve been keeping our nose to whatever androids use instead of grindstones, and the game is really taking shape. As we’re wrapping up this project - one of the biggest either of us has taken on - we thought we’d share our feelings about it. Jamie: Silicon Dreams is pretty much the most [...]
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No matter how hard a creator tries to avoid it, every piece of art or media is inherently political: it was made by an individual who inhabits a political system. Whether we want them to or not, these influences seep into everything we do, say, create, or consume - video games included. While Silicon Dreams might not be a “political game” our goal is to present the player with an interesting, personal, and emotional experience.
Continue reading "Why ssooooo pOlitiCaL?"Have you ever wondered how a game goes from prototype to finished product? Before all of the fancy graphics and animations are added, before all of these incredibly detailed inter-woven systems work together, how does a game look? Today we’re going to talk about the journey we’ve taken with Silicon Dreams; how it has already [...]
Continue reading "You can polish a turd… but it’s better to polish something else."“The AI Titan’s gilded age” The history of Kronos Robotics, the dominating manufacturer of consumer androids and automation technologies, is a tangled web of perfectly executed business strategies, product launches, hostile-takeovers, and PR cover-ups. After years of research, interviews with former employees, and a substantial amount of speculation, we can now piece together the confidential [...]
Continue reading "Kronos Robotics: a history of hostility"Silicon Dreams is live on Kickstarter as we speak! Download and play the demo for yourself! Silicon Dreams “Silicon Dreams” is a game of trust and betrayal set in a cyberpunk future. In a world where everyone has an android servant, it’s your job to figure out which ones are “defective” and report them to [...]
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