The first major update to our natural-language narrative ARG is AVAILABLE NOW, alongside our first sale for the game, with 25% off for a full week. The Acolyte Voice Within Update brings some key new functionality to the game, including: · Full, dynamic AI voice-over · New 'Daily Horoscope' module · New facts added · New jokes added · 100s of lines of new dialogue · Improved Hint system · Perfo…
First things first: HUGE thanks to those of you that have picked up Acolyte and chucked yourself down the rabbit-hole of ARG sleuthing. I've been watching as many streams and videos of the game as I can, and seeing how different players tackle the game via its open-ended input is fascinating. To the small subset of players that have managed to solve all the game's puzzles: kudos. The game game…
The day has finally arrived. Acolyte - Superstring's ambitious natural language narrative ARG - is OUT NOW! And there's 10% off to celebrate launch. Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options. Just like a real conversation. Become an employee of Nanomax, a well-funded tech start-up looking…
We are now one week from the launch of Acolyte. In seven days time, the game that Superstring has been working on for the past three years will land on Steam. Questions about the game? We've got you covered. ACOLYTE HAS ‘ARG ELEMENTS’? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!? It means that the game also takes place outside of the game client itself. To unravel Acolyte’s mystery and solve some of its puzzles, you’…
I’ve made the difficult decision to push the release of Acolyte by a month. Due to the natural language input at the heart of the experience, there are an infinite number of ways a player might interact with the game and it’s puzzles, and my general feeling is that the game can be much tighter, and deliver a more polished experience. At this stage of production, Acolyte is developed by a team o…
Ahead of release later this month, we've released the final trailer for Acolyte - showing the game's natural language dialogue, ARG sleuthing and general corporate conspiracy in action. "Blackmail, harassment, a secret they'll do anything to hide. If tech giants like Nanomax are left unchecked. Unchallenged. Who knows where things will lead..." Watch the new trailer below: More soon. -- Acolyte…
Not only is Acolyte a natural language game - meaning you can talk freely without pre-defined dialogue options - it's also an ARG. This means that the game spills out of the game client itself, and starts to unfold across the web. Everything spins around the fictional company of Nanomax , who you'll 'work for' as a QA tester when you begin the game. The nature of your relationship to Nanomax wi…
Acolyte is a natural language game. This means there are no pre-defined dialogue options or binary decisions to make. You can, within reason, talk freely to your Acolyte - your own digital assistant - to advance the plot in any way you see fit. Or you could choose to NOT advance the plot at all, and simply soak in the conversation. It’s totally up to you. Through conversation and verbal command…
In our upcoming natural language ARG/Detective game, you are a character in the story -- not a character that you might assume the role of, but you . Today’s update aims to shine a bit of a light on the world that you’ll be immersing yourself in: the world of the technology company, Nanomax. You'll start the game as a new employee of the well-funded tech start up. Specifically, you’re brought o…
It’s taken a little while to put a date to Acolyte , but we’re finally there. Out ambitious natural language detective/ARG title will launch on Steam on May 26th, 2022 . Just around the corner, then. Since the release of Acolyte: Prologue a year ago, we have doubled down on the game’s innovative ARG elements, with a new focus on bold puzzles that will see players having to dig deep and summon t…
This has been a few months in the making, but we're excited to announce the additions of Olivia Wood and George Lockett (Bear//Wolf) to the Acolyte team, who are bringing their narrative design and writing talents to the table to help shape Acolyte's story, and flesh out the real-world ARG components of the game. Olivia and George bring their experiences with fantastic narrative titles such as…
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