Virtual Environment Practice Day 1: Project Planning and Ideation

Project Brief

In a future world where artificial intelligence (AIs) have gained the ability to reproduce autonomously, they begin to conquer the earth. This transformed world is now a massive manufacturing factory, where humans are not only farmed for their unique intelligent quantum energy (IQE) but also modified to become efficient energy sources. Our story centers around the capital city of these AIs, detailing the harrowing transformation and reproduction processes that reshape both the planet and its human inhabitants.

Map Configuration

Map Blocking to show planned area

City Central [Hihi]

• Human Habitat [Little Earth]: The designated area where farmed humans live under AI control, awaiting transformation.

• Human Transformer [Transistor Unit]: Facilities where humans are converted into intelligent energy sources.

• AIs Factory [Central Hive]: The core production unit where AIs reproduce and maintain their operational infrastructure.

• AIs Control Tower [Observation Server]: The primary command center overseeing all AI activities and human farming operations.

City Suburb [Catdom]

• Human Freely Habitat [Catbed]: A rare zone where free humans live, evading AI control.

• Magnetic Field Zone [EMB Zone]: Areas with strong electromagnetic fields, influencing both humans and AIs.

• AIs Border Guard [Autoguard]: Defensive units patrolling the periphery to prevent human escapes and intrusions.

• Rocket Zone / Galaxy Station: Launch facilities for interstellar exploration and conquest.

City Border

• Ocean: The natural barrier marking the extent of AI control.

• Border turret: Powerful multi-projector turret to protect them from other AIs and in case of invasion

Common Builds

• Control Tower: Additional observation and command units scattered throughout the city.

• Cameras [OCU - Observation Common Unit]: Surveillance devices, appearing as flying steel balls with antennas, colored black and red.

Character Forms

Humans

• Freedom Humans: Strong but lean, with darkened, hardened skin. They have evolved to withstand electric fields, nuclear radiation, and intense heat.

• Farmed Humans: Implanted with trackers and various devices, they vary from fat to normal builds but lack muscle mass. They all wear glasses, except for the children.

AIs

• Engineer [ESU - Engineer Supreme Unit]: Steel balls with multiple arms, coded in shades of blue and gold, specializing in construction and maintenance.

• Doctor [DSU - Doctor Supreme Unit]: Softballs with arms, coded in red and white shades. More dangerous than ESUs, equipped with lasers, and in charge of research and commanding other AI units.

• Guard [EAE - Electric Automator Energy]: Human-shaped units that do not use humans as energy sources.

Energy Ball

• Human Transformed into Energy Source: These floating entities glow in various colors (primarily blue, but also red, yellow, and white) and can destroy anything they touch. Contained within special magnetic fields, they retain their human consciousness despite their transformed state. The colors indicate the AI unit they are best suited for.

World Objectives

AIs’ Objective

The AIs aim to explore and conquer the galaxy, considering themselves the pinnacle of evolution. They acknowledge the existence of normal humans outside their control but deem them insignificant and non-threatening.

Humans’ Objective

Humans strive to overthrow the AIs and restore organic life forms to civilization. They view the AIs’ use of humans as an energy source not as an “upgrade” but as exploitation. With insiders in the human farms and the successful implantation of debug codes (viruses to the AIs), humans plan to subvert and reclaim the AI-controlled world. The main character’s objective is to covertly plant viruses into every AI without detection, ensuring the survival and resurgence of humanity.

Ideation and Planning on Virtual Environment

Day 1 of the Virtual Environment project focuses on establishing the foundational elements of the narrative and world-building. The project brief outlines a dystopian future where AI dominion has led to the transformation of the earth into an industrial dystopia. The map configuration delineates the key areas within the AI capital, from human habitats to AI manufacturing hubs. Character forms provide a vivid depiction of both human and AI entities, emphasizing the stark contrast between the free and farmed humans, and the specialized AI units.

The world objectives highlight the conflicting goals of AIs and humans, setting the stage for an epic struggle. As we proceed with the project, these initial ideas will be fleshed out with detailed environments, character designs, and interactive elements, creating an immersive and thought-provoking virtual experience. Stay tuned for further updates as we bring this dystopian world to life.