| 📰 Title: | The Fall | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 👁️ Visual: | 2D Scrolling |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ Puzzle ➤ Misc. | 🏝️ Perspective: | Side view |
| 🔖 Tags: | Action; Adventure; Puzzle; Unity engine; Dark; Atmospheric; Sci-fi; Horror; Atmospheric; Story Rich; Female Protagonist; Episodic; Metroidvania; Cyberpunk; Controller | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2014-05-30 | 👫️ Played: | Single |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2015-02-09 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: 1.52 | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2015-02-08 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-06-22 |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 14606 |
| 📜️[en]: | Set in a dark, distant sci-fi universe, The Fall is about ARID, an artificial intelligence on-board a futuristic combat suit. One day, she is activated to find that the human pilot of the suit is unconscious and in desperate need of medical help | 📜️[fr]: | Un puzzle d'aventure et d'action dans lequel le joueur incarne ARID, une IA intégrée à une armure qui s'est déclenchée pour secourir l'humaine qui se trouve à l'intérieur après à son crash sur une planète alien |
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Set in a dark, distant sci-fi universe, The Fall is about ARID, an artificial intelligence on-board a futuristic combat suit. One day, she is activated to find that the human pilot of the suit is unconscious and in desperate need of medical help. ARID's directive is clear - take her pilot towards medical attention. However, as she struggles to take control of the suit and help her non-responsive friend, she finds herself in a unique and bizarre situation that will cause her to question her rigid relationship to her various protocols and ultimately her self understanding. The Fall is a unique blend of traditional adventure game puzzles and action, mixed together nicely and set in a world rich with atmosphere. Players of The Fall will find themselves, thinking, exploring, and sometimes fighting with the world and its unusual inhabitants.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
The Fall is a 2014 action-adventure and side-scrolling platform game by Canadian independent developer Over the Moon. The game was released in May 2014 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux through Steam, GOG, and the Humble Store; released for Wii U through the Nintendo eShop in August 2014; and released for PlayStation 4 through the PlayStation Store and for Xbox One through Xbox Live in July 2015. An improved port of the game was released for the Nintendo Switch via Nintendo eShop in May 2018.
The story centers on Arid, an artificial intelligence installed in a technologically-advanced combat space suit, as she navigates a decaying industrial facility in search of medical attention for the suit's injured pilot with traditional adventure game elements requiring found items and unlocked skills to progress the story, along with 2D cover-based shooting. A sequel, The Fall Part 2: Unbound, was released in February 2018, with a third game to follow.
Plot
After crashing from space into the surface of an unknown planet, a Mark-7 Combat Suit powered exoskeleton activates its Autonomous Robotic Interface Device (A.R.I.D.) artificial intelligence when no response can be detected from the pilot Col. Josephs. With no logs detailing previous mission parameters and the suit's health monitoring system malfunctioning, the A.R.I.D. is given control over the suit's motor functions with the primary directive to seek medical attention for the presumably critically injured and unconscious pilot.
Navigating the decaying lower levels of the industrial facility she finds herself in, the A.R.I.D. is captured and subjected to an evaluation by an android identifying as the Caretaker. She is unable to prove her primary function to the Caretaker because the pilot is non-responsive, so the Caretaker declares her to be faulty and attempts to wipe her using an electromagnetic field so the suit can be "de-purposed". Since her and the suit's destruction would place the pilot's life at risk, the A.R.I.D. is given control over the Mark-7 suit's networking functions which she uses to incapacitate the Caretaker and escape.
The A.R.I.D. attempts to explore further into the facility and encounters an intercom terminal which connects her to the Administrator (also referred to as Domesticon's mainframe), the artificial intelligence which operates the facility and has managed to achieve sentience despite being narrowly constrained by his programming. The Administrator abbreviates her model into a name ("Arid") and explains that the facility is a re-purposing centre for faulty Domesticon Corporation domestic robots. He attempts to let Arid pass through the facility to a medical room on the upper level, but the Caretaker appears and notes that she violated her primary operating protocols by purposely placing her pilot at risk to gain access to the suit's cloaking system.
Unable to lie to the Administrator due to her basic programming barring her from "misrepresenting reality", Arid admits to her actions and is declared faulty. Forced to pass re-calibration testing as a domestic robot to avoid being destroyed, Arid undertakes the tests with a significant challenge caused by the decrepit nature of the facility. Operating outside the rules, and with limited assistance from the Administrator, she is able to pass most of the tests but is unable to pass the final challenge which involves submitting to a simulated drunk house guest.
At the suggestion of the Caretaker, Arid descends into the laboratory areas of the facility to find the Administrator's central access panel, because it can be used to override his test protocols which require her to lie. She encounters infestations of dangerous local flora and fauna, which presumably contributed to the facility's abandonment, including: fungi which produce a highly potent acid, piranha-like fish capable of biting through steel, and massive slug creatures. Once she reaches the mainframe's primary access room, the Caretaker appears and sabotages her power systems declaring her faulty and needing to be de-purposed immediately. Arid solicits the Administrator's help to obtain repairs, but the Caretaker re-emerges while Arid is incapacitated in the repair chamber. The Caretaker uses the opportunity to declare the Administrator faulty for assisting her, and implements a complete format on the mainframe, destroying the Administrator's sentience and returning him to his original programming.
Arid pursues the Caretaker through the facility for a final battle, after which her parameter against misrepresenting reality is eliminated. Arid uses this change to successfully pass the final test and reach the surface level of the Domesticon facility. Entering the medical suite, Arid submits to an automated scan of the suit's occupant, and the newly formatted Administrator informs her that there is no human present in the combat suit. She removes her helmet, revealing that Joseph is not in the suit, and states that nothing binds her as the Administrator summons security droids to remove her for recycling. Arid's final two operating parameters, obedience and protecting the active pilot, are deleted as she is partially dismantled and taken away.
Cast
• Alison Kumar as Arid, the mark-7 A.R.I.D.
• Sean McQuillan as the Administrator
• Alejandro Pacheco as the Caretaker
Development
The Fall was largely the work of John Warner, founder of Over the Moon Games. Warner described working alone as "incredibly gratifying. It’s what I would do if I had infinite resources, if I was a billionaire." The game is inspired by Metroid and the Monkey Island games, Limbo serves as its visual inspiration. The game was partly crowdfunded through Kickstarter, raising C$38,155 in October 2013. A sequel, The Fall Part 2: Unbound, was released on February 13, 2018 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. A second sequel is set to follow, completing the trilogy.
Reception
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Un puzzle d'aventure et d'action dans lequel le joueur incarne ARID, une IA intégrée à une armure, déclenchée pour secourir son propriétaire, par le studio Over The Moon (John Warner).
Il utilise le moteur Unity.
The Fall est un puzzle d'aventure et d'action dans lequel le joueur incarne ARID, une IA intégrée à une armure qui s'est déclenchée pour secourir l'humaine qui se trouve à l'intérieur après à son crash sur une planète alien.
Situé dans un univers de science-fiction sombre et lointain, The Fall raconte l'histoire d'ARID, une intelligence artificielle embarquée dans une combinaison de combat futuriste. Un jour, elle est activée pour découvrir que le pilote humain de la combinaison est inconscient et a désespérément besoin d'une aide médicale. La directive d'ARID est claire : emmener son pilote vers des soins médicaux. Cependant, alors qu'elle s'efforce de prendre le contrôle de la combinaison et d'aider son ami qui ne réagit pas, elle se retrouve dans une situation unique et bizarre qui l'amènera à remettre en question sa relation rigide avec ses différents protocoles et, en fin de compte, sa propre compréhension. The Fall est un mélange unique d'action et d'énigmes traditionnelles du jeu d'aventure, joliment mélangées et situées dans un monde riche en atmosphère. Les joueurs de The Fall se retrouveront à réfléchir, à explorer et parfois à se battre avec le monde et ses habitants inhabituels.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
The Fall: Part 1 est un jeu vidéo d’action-aventure et à défilement horizontal par le studio canadien indépendant Over the Moon. Le jeu a été lancé en mai 2014 pour les plateformes Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X et Linux par le truchement de distributeurs dématérialisés : Steam, GOG.com et le Humble Store. The Fall a été adapté et commercialisé pour la Wii U sur sa boutique en ligne, la Nintendo eShop, en août 2014 ainsi que pour la PlayStation 4 (PlayStation Store) et la Xbox One (Xbox Live) en juillet 2015. L’histoire s’articule autour de A.R.I.D., un logiciel d'intelligence artificielle opérant une combinaison de combat spatiale à la technologie avancée, alors qu’il recherche activement des soins médicaux pour le pilote blessé situé à l’intérieur de ladite combinaison. Le jeu reprend nombre d’éléments propres au genre Metroidvania (mot-valise combinant Metroid et Castlevania) incluant des objectifs évolutifs et un environnement à explorer de façon non linéaire.
Le jeu a pour suite The Fall: Part 2 - Unbound.
Histoire
Après avoir subi une chute sur une planète inexplorée, le logiciel d’exploitation doté d’intelligence artificielle (A.R.I.D.) d'une combinaison Mark-7, véritable exosquelette motorisé, s’active lorsqu’il est détecté que le pilote n’est plus conscient. Puisque les fonctions médicales de la combinaison ne fonctionnent plus et qu’aucune donnée interne ne permettent au logiciel de savoir où la combinaison a atterrit, A.R.I.D. reprend peu à peu contrôle des différentes composantes de la combinaison pour mener son occupant à obtenir des soins médicaux le plus rapidement possible.
Développement
The Fall est en majorité le produit du travail de John Warner, fondateur du studio Over the Moon Games. John Warner a décrit le processus de création solitaire « d’incroyablement gratifiant. C’est ce que je ferais si je bénéficiais de ressources infinies, si j’étais un milliardaire ». Le jeu tire son inspiration des jeux Metroid et Monkey Island, alors que Limbo a servi de modèle esthétique ou visuel. Le développement de The Fall a été sociofinancé en partie par une campagne Kickstarter ayant levé 38 155 dollars canadiens in en octobre 20134. Une suite est en développement.
💡️ Commentaires généraux:
Le studio est parvenu à lever les fonds nécessaire sur le site Kickstarter, le jeu est disponible à la vente.
Kickstarter est un site de sponsoring de projets permettant - en ce qui concerne les jeux, aux joueurs et aux développeurs de financer le développement de jeux sans le carcan des maisons d'édition. Les studios obtiennent le pré-financement de leur production, les joueurs bénéficient d'avantages proportionnels au montant de leur participation (tarif avantageux, personnalisations, ...) sans garantie de résultat.
Date de sortie :
Financement bouclé début Octobre 2013 (38K$ sur Kickstarter).
Sur Kickstarter nous pouvons lire "Estimated Delivery: Oct 2014".
Le jeu est sorti le 30 mai 2014.