• why make a videogame that adapts itself to the player?
• how many people worked on the game?
• why the name polybius?
• did the game have anything to do with the military??

All the "made by the military to control kids to go to war* bs makes the veracity of existence of the game very very rare

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Philip R. Frey
a.k.a. "Rhindle The Red"

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Originally posted by bangles66:

*how* did the game control people? i'm tired of this copypasta shitty history

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Philip R. Frey
a.k.a. "Rhindle The Red"

So i have a few questions: Are you allowed to talk to about the game? If not, is this the reason the game isn't talked very much? What is the objective of making a game like this?

• I was one of the lead developer in the game, but only for a short time, because we all got changed from project some months later in development
• We where 5 people initially
• Polybius means many lives, the game changed when you died, adapting to your skills, so thats why i think the name was choosen, also maybe an inside joke? An internal production code? Maybe it was that
• I don't really know if it had ties with the military, it was a very messy time at Atari. They got at us one day and said something like: "You need to make a videogame named Polybius that changed between every player", to make to the demands we had to give the game concience.
• In my opinion, the games was never supposed to be released, it was a experiment to the idea of a machine adapting to a person and without them knowing changing their opinion of things. I believe the machine got to an arcade by a error, it was never meant for that. And for that reason a day later it was taken away never to be seen again. So the objective was only to test the limits of controlling people using audiovisual mediums.
• The game isn't "talked much" because it was present only one day in the arcades, from what i have been told(not very much), an accident happened and the game was quickly taken away after the authorities found out it wasn't where it was supposed to be.
• There was one person in the team, i think the most talented one, he was the one that pushed the most the conscience and adapting to players thing. He after testing the machine with various tasks was so scared with the results that later he quit his job and never talked with us again. Weird stuff
• You may ask, how did this game affect the human syquis? Well, we had a database of all the people that lived in the area that the game was runned on, in this case, a very rural part of Oregon. The game used facial reconicion to detect them, and get their name, age, etc. The game used an intelligent program that used that data to manipulate the player. Just imagine what it could have done with the data that the internet holds! Amazing, but terrifying at the same time. Did you know that you can affect the brain of a person indirectly? You don't need any special tools, just the right messages to tick a certain part of their brains, and thats what Polybius did.

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Originally posted by Raccoon Lad:
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hahaha thats great, ive been to that site about 4 different times and i hate when i miss the stupid links to stuff like this

But most people wouldn't appreciate it, cause it's punk/punk rock

Adam