Cogito

Welcome to Cogito! This is a 2D/3D tycoon game about AI made as the Final Year Project for the Multimedia course in DCU. This game revolves around developing an Artificial Intelligence agent into an Artificial General Intelligence! (AGI)

Your role as Chief AI Researcher will involve you venturing inside the AI known as "Cogito", to develop it into something much more powerful! You can build and upgrade different AI components to generate MONEY to buy even more powerful components! Your tasks are as follows:

• Build and upgrade AI Sectors to generate MONEY
• Upgrade your AI systems to achieve AGI
• Make sure that there are no issues, and if there are, fix them as soon as you can!
• Explore around the Office to fix any ongoing problems!
• Choose the path you see fit! You're the one in charge after all!

This game couldn't have been possible without the DCU Multimedia programme, our project supervisors and all of our user testers, so we sincerly thank you all for your participation with the project! Here is the team behind Cogito:

Dan Casey - Project Manager/ Audio Lead

Cian O' Connor - 3D/2D Visual Lead

Mark Budeanu - Programmer

Katelyn Fitzpatrick - 2D Visuals/User Testing Lead

DOWNLOADS:

You will see there are 3 different options for downloading the game. The first one (v1.0.0) is the original version of the game, as it was played during the Multimedia Graduate Exhibition in late April. That version has a few bugs in it, and doesn't have Achievements, Settings and other helpful changes, so it will be a rougher experience than the other options! Only choose this option if you want the authentic experience of the game, as it was during the exhibition.

The other two options are version 1.1 of the game. One of them is for Windows, and the other is for Mac devices. Choose whichever one suits your system. Here are the new features v1.1 has:

• Achievements! There are 10 different achievements for you to collect during your playthroughs. They are accessible through the Pause Menu. Try to collect them all!
• Settings! Customize your gameplay preferences, with audio sliders, mouse sensitivity sliders & an in game timer!
• More posters! Some exciting new posters that will liven up the previously empty walls. Who knows? Maybe there is a deeper meaning behind them..
• Balance changes! A lot of Sectors in the Tycoon section have been buffed to generate more MONEY as to balance out the late game section, to make it more enjoyable to play through!
• Lots of bug fixes! A lot of bugs were fixed since the previous version that will ensure that the game experience will be a lot smoother and without much issues! Granted, there are still a few bugs left in the game, but the majority of them are patched out in this version. If you find any major bugs, please leave a comment below and we will sort it out!
• And more! Who knows, there might be something sinister under the surface...