Background & Story
First of all, my idea came from May 2012's issue of gameinformer. If you turn to page twelve and thirteen, you will see multiple pictures of an android girl. Below and alongside those pictures is an entry explaining briefly information on the project. The passage follows:
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The demo starts with the construction of the KPC-897504C android that is designed for a wide range of assistance functions. It will clean your house, feed your kids, and even satisfy your sexual needs.
An unseesn operator oversees the assembly of the android, running it through a test initialization process that includes the technician naming the unit Kara. The creation of this new identity produces a flicker of conciousness that is strengthened as the process continues, and Kara becomes more and more confident in herself. She can speak 300 languages - including singing beautiful beautifully in Japanese - and when synthetic flesh is added to her frame, she instinctively exhibits the human emotion of modesty by covering up her new nakedness.
Her new life won't last long, however. The technician explains that she is to be re-initaialized so she can be sold to a consumer who will give the unit its own name and purpose. [acceptance is key]
Kara realizes what this means for her "I thought..." she begins.
"You thought?" counters the operator, "What did you think?"
"I thought... I was alive."
"You're not supposed to think that sort of stuff," he explains, "You're not supposed to think at all, period."
The technician orders her to be scrapped for "Non-standard" behaviour, and the assembl machine starts to comply; dismantling her limb by limb.
Kara is pleading. "Please. Please, I'm begging you, don't disassemble me."
"I'm sorry, honey." he explains, as more and more of her is stripped away. "But defective models have to be eliminated, that's my job."
She is desperate. "I won't cause any more problems, I promise. I'll do everything I'm asked to, I won't say another word. I won't think anymore. I've only just been born, you can't kill me yet! Stop! Will you please stop?! I'm scared!"
All that's left of her by this point is her head and torso, with it's synthetic heart valve beating fast. "I want to live. I'm begging you."
Operator relents and restarts the assembly process. As she is reconstructed and her hair and flesh return, she cries silent tears.
"Go and join the others," he says, "Stay in line, okay? I don't want any trouble."
She smiles slightly and whispers, "Thanks."
Kara joins a line of other androids. They all look just like her, but their faces stare blankly ahead.
Cage says the idea for the Kara demo came about after Quantic Dream finished The Indigo Prophecy in 2005. He says he was inspired by the books of futurist Ray Kurzweil and was fascinated with the idea of documenting that moment when an AI becomes self-aware.
After the developer finished Heavy Rain in 2010, Cage says the team "wanted to have even more emotion. More of the original performance from the actor, and we knew we had to progress on many different areas. One of them was performance capture..."
To get what Cage was after, Quantic Dream created a new 3D engine that improves how the studio performs motion capture for the actors/Actresses. For Heavy Rain, the studio recorded mo-cap sessions as split performances - the body animations were recorded separately from the voice and the face. That system utilized 25 cameras. For the Kara demo everything was recorded simultaniously using 68 cameras. Cage says that Kara only utilized 50% of the engine's capabilities, and he expects the improvements in the lighting department alone should go along way to appropriately setting the mood in scenes.
Judging by Kara's performance, the new engine is already capable of delivering more emotion than the already impressive Heavy Rain. Voiced by Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Veronica Mars actress Valorie Curry, Kara's moment of consciousness is masterfully conveyed, as is her understanding of mortality and desperation to live.
For Cage, this is just the beginning for the both the engine and the PS3. "We thought that we did a lot, in matter of technology and visuals, with Heavy Rain. But the more we work on Playstation 3, the more we realize that there's much more to do with the hardware. It's incredibly powerful, and I think people will be surprised by what we can still do with it."
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Plot
Exactly 12,000 androids have been created by year 2013. The project, nicknamed "Manufacturing Emotions" had begun in year 2008. It has taken nearly five years to successfully create 12,000 androids, of which half were male, and the other half female. The project itself was kept a secret until 2012. Exactly eleven months had passed before the first android was released. Then two, three, and before the company who created them realized it, they had sold well over 10,000 androids. They were successful! Or so they thought. Four androids were secretly placed with the rest of the successful androids. These four androids appeared to have achieved emotions much higher than anticipated and hoped for. Though they had been meant to be taken apart, they managed to save their lives. Of these four, three were female, and one male. For every hundred or so of these androids, their looks changed, adding variety to the selection.
These fours androids were each sent to their corresponding owners. Soon enough, the androids attempt at escape, and are successful. Not long after, each of the Androids finds one another. Androids are able to tell when another is an android. They all decide to escape the area together, but their owners seem to find them quickly. Instead of forcing the Androids to come back, they follow them as the Androids wish to learn more about the Earth and see if they can somehow stop the organization from making more Androids.
Rules
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Character Positions
Androids
The Curious One(F)- Taken by Akabane
The Scared One(F)- Open
The Panicked One(F)- Open
The Protective One(M)- Taken by Codette
Humans
The Perverted One(M)- Open
The Handsome One(M)- Open
The Silent One(M)- Open
The Rich One(F)- Open
Character Matching
The Curious One - The Silent One
The Scared One - The Handsome One
The Panicked One - The Perverted One
The Protective One - The Rich One
Character Profile
Avi Name:
Name:
Android Name: [Ex- KPC- 849345C Must begin with three letters, at random, then a dash, six numbers, followed, finally, by the last letter from the beginning three letters. Only for Androids. Humans, erase this part completely from your profile.]
Age: [Between 18 and 23]
Gender:
Position:
Owner/Android: [Look at the character pairing if you aren't aware of yours. You MUST fill this in with the correct information. There is no "I don't know" or "I'll decide later". It has already been decided and my decision is final.]
Personality: [Don't kill yourself going too into detail.]
Biography: [Not really necessary, but I would like a little detail on your life(Mainly for the owners/humans. The Androids all had relatively the same making.]
Picture: [Anime Only. Please make them complex pictures. By that I mean, Final Fantasy complex. But don't actually use any Final Fantasy characters. Because then I picture, say, Cloud in this Roleplay and that makes it weird. Even if I think Cloud is totally hot. <3]
(Except usually without guns and wears tight black pants. Right pant leg is cut short to show her metal banding on her leg.)
