Kronos Robotics: a history of hostility

“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 [...]

Silicon Dreams is live on Kickstarter! Right now!!

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 [...]

Why cyberpunk?

I’m Jamie, and every commercial game I’ve made has been cyberpunk. Do I… have a problem? "We've been waiting for you..." I’m being facetious. I’ve only released one fully commercial game, Spinnortality, and I’m making another one, Silicon Dreams. They’re both set in different cyberpunk worlds. I don’t need to check into cyberpunk rehab yet [...]

Silicon Dreams will be on Kickstarter!

Dearest fans, followers, and beloved members of the Clockwork Flock, we are thrilled (and more than just a little bit terrified) to announce that Silicon Dreams is coming to Kickstarter on April 7th! We’ve been working really hard for the last month to make this a project worth your time and hard-earned currency. If you [...]

A Silicon Dream in a Meat Brain

Let’s talk about the inspirations behind Silicon Dreams. What do androids mean to you? Blade Runner is a really good science fiction movie from 1982 about androids, and whether they should be recognised as humans. It’s had a big impact on Silicon Dreams: the basic idea of interrogating an android was ripped straight from one [...]

Game announcement: Silicon Dreams

Hello everyone, Danny here! I’d like to start by wishing a very happy new year to all of our friends, family, fans, and followers. I hope you enjoyed the holiday celebrations and were able to observe the Earth’s completion of another successful revolution around the Sun.  Jamie and I have been hard at work making [...]

Welcome!

Hi there, welcome to the new home of Clockwork Bird! We're busy getting all our ducks in a row (excuse the pun) but expect our first proper blog post some time next week.