Description
The year is 2031 and the world is near the brink of economic collapse. To avoid this, the president comes up with a plan to stop the disaster - but before applying it, the long-term impacts on the world need to be validated. This is done with a simulation visited by the computer project PRISM, designed to be a true AI. The game starts when PRISM awakes from a simulation of his own, human life and is told that he is in fact the world's first sentient machine. At this point, the player takes control over PRISM.
A Mind Forever Voyaging is a text-based interactive fiction game. The player reads descriptions which detail the surroundings and communicates with the game by typing in commands. Most of the time is spent in simulation mode where the player repeatedly visits the town of Rockvil and needs to record situations of everyday or special activities going on. If the player has recorded enough, the game progresses and the simulation ten years ahead can be visited. However, the recording device has no unlimited capacity - when full, the player needs to exit the simulation and let the recordings review by the project leader. Then the current simulation can be simply started again from the start to find new situations - the same applies when dying.
Between simulations and toward the end there are situations outside the simulation, but overall the game is light on puzzle-solving and more about experiencing how said plan changes Rockvil and its people over time. Outside the simulation there are three more modes to enter: communications (switching to various video/audio units to examine other locations and people), library (various documents and other information to read) and interlace (communicating and giving orders to the own subsystems).
Alternate Titles
- "PRISM" -- Working title
- "A Mind Forever Voyaging - a science fiction story" -- Tag-lined title
- "AMFV" -- Abbreviated title
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User Reviews
The Press Says
| SPAG |
Apr 19, 1995 |
8.4 out of 10 |
84 |
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Trivia
Extras
A Mind Forever Voyaging contained a copy of "Dakota Online Magazine"; a map of Rockvil, South Dakota; a yellow pen ("Quad Mutual Insurance"); and a Class One Security Decoder (used for copy protection). As of 2004 it was reported that the pen still is in working condition.
References
The man on the cover looks like a young
Timothy Hutton.
Awards
- GameSpot
- December 17, 1999 - 2nd Best Ending in PC Gaming History (Editors' Vote)
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James Evans,
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