• 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 developers 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 told us to create a game given a description, i don't remember what it was, a long time passed.
• In my opinion, the games was never supposed to be released, it was a experiment to the idea of a machine adapting and altering someone memories and thoughts. Clearly the arcade wasn't meant to be known to the public, hell, we had only one. I eard that for some reason it ended up in an arcade, it was never meant for that. And for that reason a day later it was taken away never to be seen again. The only time it was saw by the public a terrible accident happened. So they objective was only to test modifying someone conscience to their will. So, who is *they*, i don't know, i never saw it as a only Atary project?
• 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 dissapeared one day, after i leaved the team.
• I leaved the team very early in the game development, that was one of the luckiest decisions of my life, most of the crew had terrible fates... 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.