Static Sky: And Yet It █████
██落在夜空生成以前
Rhett Tsai, Justin Bortnick
Experimental video game, Forthcoming (Expected Q1 2025)

Static Sky: And Yet It █████ is a literary computer game based on the fear of and resistance to artificial intelligence. It imagines a future ruled by AI world models, where everything is generated by AI, reality is redefined, hometowns are reshaped, and symbols are reoriented.

In this future, the protagonist wears a RV (Real Virtuality) headset that claim to show "reality" within the "virtual." The seemingly real traces revealed by the RV glasses (such as unfinished noise and uncolored white objects) trigger his mental breakdown and fear of reality.

By depicting this collapse and the disintegration of meaning caused by reality, Static Sky: And Yet It █████ presents a possible future of extreme artificial intelligence. The protagonist's mental symptoms are a hypothesis about the broader human cognition of the future.

Static Sky is a “walking simulator” style game that takes players into the world of the protagonist to experience a series of vignettes and scenarios - some from the protagonist's lived experience, others generated by the generative AI Sekai.


Static Sky: And Yet It █████
██落在夜空生成以前
蔡宇潇, Justin Bortnick 实验电子游戏, Q1 2025年

《██落在夜空生成以前》是一件文学游戏,它基于对人工智能的恐慌与抵抗力量,想象了一个被人工智能世界模型统治的未来,世界的一切都由人工智能生成,真实被重新定义、家乡被重新塑造、符号被重新指向。

在这一未来中,主角头戴一款宣称能够在由人工智能塑造的「虚拟」中看到「真实」的现实虚拟(RV)眼镜,本作品展现的是主角戴上RV眼镜的一瞬间的意识世界。在这一瞬间内,RV 眼镜显现出的看似真实的痕迹引发了他的精神崩溃和对实存的恐惧。

通过描述这场因真实而起的崩溃与意义瓦解,《██落在夜空生成以前》呈现了一个关于极端性人工智能的可能未来,主角所展现的精神症候则是对未来更广泛的人类认知的假设。

作为一款「步行模拟」风格的游戏,本作品带领玩家进入主人公的意识世界,穿梭于各种情景与片段之中——一些来自于他自身的生活经历,另一些则由生成式人工智能「Sekai」生成。


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Languages
- English
- 简体中文
- 繁體中文

Recommended System Requirements
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
- RAM: 16GB

CREDITS

Director
Rhett Tsai (Yuxiao Cai), Justin Bortnick

Creative Director / Lead Designer / 3D Artist / Programmer / Sound Artist / Writing
Rhett Tsai (Yuxiao Cai)

Design / Narrative Design / Writing / Proofreading
Justin Bortnick

Title Graphic Design
Mofan Zhai (翟莫梵)

VX Advisor
Xinling Luo (罗心聆)

Special Appearances
The Painter - Mofan Zhai
The RV woman - Xinling Luo
The Cat in the Alley - Ah Chuan (阿川猫)

Funding Grant
University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center

Special Thanks
Guangli Liu (刘广隶)
Jiahui Wang (王嘉辉)
Lihao Shao (邵立昊)
Mofan Zhai

(Full credits available within the software)