Bot Colony | The game you speak with

Our Journey

2009

Concept of language-controlled game unveiled at GDC in March 2009

2010

The Bot Colony book came out, telling a story set in the future, in 2021.

2014

The prototype Bot Colony videogame is launched on Steam Early Access on June 16. The game (and the company) almost dies, but then it doesn’t...

2015

A smaller North Side continues R&D and game development (it never stopped!)

2021

August, when the Bot Colony story is set, comes and goes. The 2010 story is even more relevant.

2023

Technology catches up with the dream. The immersive experience we had in mind when we embarked on the journey becomes feasible. Bot Colony is coming out on Unreal, powered by our situated NLU technology integrated with OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT).

Bot Colony [redux] on Steam, summer 2023

WATCH FOR BOT COLONY [REDUX] ON STEAM

Bot Colony [redux] is coming soon to Steam and other platforms.

Bot Colony is the first 3d game to leverage ChatGPT in dialogue to produce a uniquely immersive experience, interaction with intelligent 3D characters in a 3D environment. Dialogue with the game character (all intelligent robots who can be commanded to perform actions in 3d) is the main game mechanic in Bot Colony.

A game relying on commanding characters through actions and conversing with them was recognized to be highly unique when Bot Colony was launched on Steam Early Access in June 2014 (and it still is today).

Bot Colony was redesigned on top of the Unreal 5.1 platform (it was launched with Havok Vision in 2014). The conversation part of the game was re-implemented with ChatGPT (it used North Side's proprietary NLU technology). North Side's technology supports language-based interaction with the 3D environment (commanding characters to manipulate objects, go to places, interact with each other) and complements ChatGPT, to create a unique, immersive 3D experience. Speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies have greatly evolved since Bot Colony was first launched on Early Access in 2014, contributing to the immersive quality of the Bot Colony experience.