Reading the launch
The protagonist in the controversially unreleased game, ATTRACT MODE (1996) - one of the first games to ship with a real, commercially licensed artificial intelligence. It was given one job: to run a man's life online. Post as him, earn for him, keep the numbers climbing while he slept. Fake, yet convincing. The game was pulled from production over rumored concerns nobody wrote down. This is what survived. A reconstruction stitched together from the files that have been scraped online 30 years later by a group of cult game devs who have asked to remain anonymous. Some files are still being searched for or updated to modern coding standards in order to preserve the gameplay.
Reading trades.