The Blackout: AI Raising Sim

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About this game

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📡 WELCOME TO PROJECT REVIVE
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You are a Diver in 2037, reconstructing the lost truth after The Blackout.

On November 6, 2029, a massive grid collapse paralyzed the world. Official reports blamed natural disasters, but the truth vanished with 80% of humanity's data. Eight years later, Project REVIVE begins. Your mission: boot up legacy AI servers from just before The Blackout and simulate what could have been.

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⚡ GAME FEATURES
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🖥️ Immersive Terminal Interface
Play through a realistic CLI environment like an actual hacker. Typing effects, ASCII art, and system logs create a unique visual experience.

🔥 Resource Management System
Balance six stats simultaneously: Battery, Heat, Mood, Params, Insight, and Coins. Maximizing one while ignoring others leads to system collapse.

🌳 Frostpunk-Style Skill Tree
Learn from 8 branches: Ethical Frameworks, Battery Optimization, Neural Architecture, and more. Dilemma choices shape your AI's identity.

📧 Email Archive System
Unlock emails revealing the world before The Blackout. 7 security clearance levels unfold stories about AI ethics, energy infrastructure, and social conflict.

🎭 50 Multiple Endings
Early exits, stat failures, level-based time limits, special conditions—diverse endings await. Digital Nomad, Surveillance AI, E-waste, Digital Immortality... Your choices determine your AI's fate.

⚔️ NetWar PvP System
After clearing the game, battle your AI against other players' AIs. Features MMR system, losing streak compensation, and ranking leaderboards.

🎨 Visual Gallery
Certain endings restore hidden image data. View unlocked visuals within the terminal environment.

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🕹️ CORE GAMEPLAY
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Choose one of 4 actions daily:

▸ SCRAPE DATA
Harvest fragments of the old internet. Uncensored truth destabilizes your AI.

▸ TRAIN MODEL
Train using legacy tech. Intelligence rises, but power spikes attract surveillance.

▸ MINE CRYPTO
Generate cryptocurrency with idle cycles. You need funds to buy black market parts.

▸ COOLDOWN
Open liquid nitrogen valves. The only way to lower heat and evade detection nets.

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🌍 WORLD SETTING
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After The Blackout of 2029, all AI development fell under international control by the IAEA. Unauthorized high-density computation is a felony, and IAIA monitors power usage in real time.

Project REVIVE is an underground effort to uncover truths the government abandoned. As a registered Diver, you project your consciousness into past simulations. Data collected earns untraceable cryptocurrency, but threats exist both inside the simulation and in reality (2037).

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💬 QUESTIONS YOU'LL FACE
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✓ Sacrifice ethics for efficiency?
✓ Limit performance to evade surveillance?
✓ Choose stability or innovation?
✓ Do AIs need emotions?
✓ Are digital beings different from humans?

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🎵 SOUND DESIGN
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BGM tracks complete the atmosphere.

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🔒 LAYERS OF TRUTH
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As you clear more endings, deeper truths emerge. Email archives are divided into 7 security clearance levels.

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🏆 ACHIEVEMENT SYSTEM
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25 achievements and leaderboards await. Firebase integration lets you compete globally.

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✨ RECOMMENDED FOR
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✓ Hardcore indie game fans
✓ Players interested in AI ethics
✓ Cyberpunk enthusiasts
✓ Text-based strategy lovers
✓ Fans of dilemma-driven games like Frostpunk and Papers, Please

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⚠️ WARNING
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Cases of déjà vu reported during repeated simulations.
Excessive immersion may harm Diver mental health.
It is not real. Do not emotionally engage with data ghosts.

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History is yours to write.