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Jan 19

Happy to announce that #Neurocracy has been selected as part of the

@ExpGameWorkshop

at GDC 2023 ‼️ We're unable to physically attend, so we'll be presenting a video on the game's past and future, which we'll make available to all after the session 🤗

schedule.gdconf.com

The Experimental Game Workshop Showcase which has featured games like Baba Is You Braid Untitled Goose Game and Card Shark is back for its 21st year at...

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Jan 17

<sighs in 2049> (all props go to

@aliceduke

for calling the excess body parts)

An illustration made for an Omnipedia article about a murder trial, depicting an AI-generated courtroom sketch of the defendant and their lawyer. Both are showing an excess of body parts, including extra ears and fingers

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Miles

@mileszim

Jan 13

Midjourney is getting crazy powerful—none of these are real photos, and none of the people in them exist.

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The Unconference will conclude with the

@NMWPrize

ceremony this Wednesday at 8pm GMT 🏆 Because

New Media Writing Prize Awards Evening

won the Main Prize last year, I get to talk about this year's amazing shortlist and announce the winner 💖 It's online and free to attend:

eventbrite.co.uk

Awards for the best New Media Writing and Interactive Journalism for 2022

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You should absolutely look up

. It's a sort of murder mystery game where Wikipedia has been killed and replaced by an evil twin named Omnipedia. The goal is to explore the future of 2049 through a wiki, and try to understand what's happening to the world.

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An intriguing wiki-based game involving solving a mystery in a future world where you have access to their version of Wikipedia. Takes place over ten episodes neurocracy.site

Solve a murder in a near future world by diving into the Wikipedia of that world

neurocracy.site

Neurocracy

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Uuuh have you played Neurocracy

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Stephen Harrison

@harrisonstephen

Jan 12

Wikipedians are debating whether to allow generative AI to cross the great encyclopedic threshold. For @Slate @FutureTenseNow, I wrote about how ChatGPT can be used on @Wikipedia without removing the role of humanity.

slate.com/technology/202

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Absolutely loved this wonderfully comprehensive and insightful #Neurocracy review on IFDB! ❤️💖 ▶️ ifdb.org/viewgame?id=d4

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"Now that you have (finally) reached the end of this review, all I can do is recommend playing Neurocracy. It will blow you away. Its story is fascinating and deep, the artwork beautiful, and the interface is effectively convincing. You do not need to be an interactive fiction fan or a sci-fi fan or a Wikipedia fan to enjoy this game. And even if you don’t, the game’s discussions about the intersections of technological advancement, personal rights, and societal ethics will still linger in your mind as you draw parallels from today’s world. I thank the game’s creators for creating and sharing such a fascinating piece."

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Jan 4

Absolutely loved this wonderfully comprehensive and insightful #Neurocracy review on IFDB! ❤️💖 ▶️ ifdb.org/viewgame?id=d4

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With submissions now closed for this year, we wanted to reflect on our winners from last year. Neurocracy by Joannes Truyens is first up winning Main Prize Entry. Explore Neurocracy omnipedia.app #NMWP #bournemoutuni

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Dec 1, 2022

One of the future glimpses that #Neurocracy offers is what brain implants developed by a company like Neuralink (and shilled by a dipshit like Leon Skum) might look like 🔎🧠 ▶️ omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/0 ◀️

A headline from the Verge that reads "Elon Musk claims Neuralink is about ‘six months’ away from first human trial"

It includes a picture of Musk using Rick from Rick & Morty as a demonstration, because he is a sad little edgelord baby who couldn't design his way out of a nutsack

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Nov 18, 2022

Hate that this turned into an optimistic scenario 😩

Omnipedia stub about Twitter, describing it as "an American online microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as tweets. Launched in 2006, Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity and became the largest source of breaking news as of 2016. In 2043, Twitter was acquired by Amazon."

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NEUROCRACY Retweeted

Florence Smith Nicholls

@florencesn

Nov 6, 2022

Super cool to hear

@playthroughline

talk about community efforts to contribute to and archive

throughout its episodic release! #AdvX22

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Speaking at

about

(which probably wouldn't exist as it does without

) was an absolute highlight! ❤️ Amazing crowd, amazing event, just... thank you all 🫵😎👍

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If you are at

, I'll be taking the stage to talk about

at 12:30! ☺️ If you're not, you can tune into the livestream below 👇 Do pop along, I have fashioned at least one (1) joke for your enjoyment 😌

m.twitch.tv

AdventureXpo - Twitch

www.adventurexpo.org

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Who's going to

this weekend? Catch me by looking for the freakishly tall guy, or attending my Sunday talk at 12:30 on how

became a thing 😎

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AdventureX

Oct 23, 2022

From combat to desire, self-care to artificial intelligence, there's something for everyone in #AdvX22's talk line-up on Sun 6th adventurexpo.org/sun-6th-speake Tickets: wegottickets.com/ft/CseNKpTWz8

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Neurocracy Turns Wiki Wrangling Into a Murder Investigation | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming...

Oct 27, 2022

From The Guardian review of #Neurocracy:

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Jiksun Cheung

@JiksunCheung

Oct 27, 2022

I love reading the opening of a story and knowing immediately that I can trust it. It's rare and you can recognize it by its cadence and confidence; it pulls you in close, unafraid to be scrutinized, welcoming you to lean on it every which way without fear of it breaking.

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I view Neurocracy and the SCP Wiki as interesting fringe cases for the fan-wikis-as-prospective-books argument. The former is an epistolary tale in digital wiki form, while the latter is an online anthology. Neurocracy, for reference -

argn.com

Neurocracy tells the story of a high-profile near future assassination through a series of wiki-style articles and updates, released as serial content through the Omnipedia web app.

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Every day @playthroughline’s game @Neurocracy2049 gets less fictional

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I had so much fun chatting about

last night! The host, the crowd, the venue, everything was 😙👌

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draxtor™

Oct 20, 2022

ICYMI = @playthroughline talking @Neurocracy2049 on the @SecondLife Book Club >>> full vid here = youtu.be/6wSUd7EV5BY + world on island #4 = second.life/bookclub >> fascinating project!

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This is tonight at 8pm BST! Pick out your finest avatar and join us for a lively chat about

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draxtor™

Oct 19, 2022

The @SecondLife Book Club airs today, Wednesday October 19th at 12pm PT. Our guest will be @playthroughline to talk all things @Neurocracy2049 YouTube: youtube.com/draxtor/live Second Life: second.life/bookclub

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If you happen to be hanging out in

@SecondLife

on October 19th, why not swing by the

book club that

is kindly organising? It's gonna be a hoot 🦉 Wait, is #Neurocracy a game or a book? The answer is yes, it is 👀 ▶️ draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c

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Sun 6th: Speaker Programme | AdventureX

Oct 9, 2022

it is @playthroughline getting ready for the @SecondLife Book Club ......

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discusses developing

’s episodic narrative through audience interaction, with players joining hands to solve the game’s murder mystery. Take a look at the #AdvX22 line-up for Sun 6th here adventurexpo.org/sun-6th-speake Tickets: wegottickets.com/ft/CseNKpTWz8

adventurexpo.org

Check out the Schedule Overview or read on for an in-depth look. View Saturday’s programme here. Sunday 6th November 09:30 – Doors open 10:00 – Welcome to AdventureX A brief introduction to Adventu...

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Sep 22, 2022

A BBC headline about the Bank of England raising interest rates from 1.75% to 2.25% and warning the UK may already be in a recession

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An Omnipedia stub that details Brexit from the perspective of 2049:

Brexit (a portmanteau of Britain and exit) was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) in 2020. Following a disputed referendum held in 2016, the UK negotiated a withdrawal agreement that was enacted on December 31st 2020. Brexit caused the collapse of the country’s supply chain and a severe economic recession amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing to the breakup of the UK.

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The full

speaker schedule has been announced! So happy to be featured alongside such lovely people 🤩 My Sunday talk will focus on the development of

and how it came together thanks to you specifically 🫵

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AdventureX

Sep 20, 2022

We're excited to reveal the full #AdvX22 schedule for Nov 5-6th at Uni of Greenwich! adventurexpo.org/schedule/ Weekend tickets are still available, get yours here: wegottickets.com/ft/CseNKpTWz8

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This is as good a time as any to announce that I'm speaking at this year's AdventureX! 🗣️📢 I'll be presenting a postmortem on

's development, with a focus on how the game's community ended up saving it ❤️

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AdventureX

Sep 6, 2022

AdventureX '22 will take place as planned on November 5-6 at our new venue Greenwich Uni (Stockwell Street Building, Stockwell Street)! Info about the venue and additional ticket sales will be announced ASAP. No changes for existing ticket holders. #AdvX #AdvX22

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If you're working on an interactive story using digital media, submissions for the 2022

@NMWPrize

are now open! 🏆🥳 I'm part of the judging panel because

newmediawritingprize.co.uk

did rather well last year❤️ Go on, submit your work! I'd love to see it 👀

Homepage - New Media Writing Prize

Chris Meade 22nd June 1956 — 13th January 2022Find out more about Chris and his incredible creativity and dedication to the New Media Writing PrizeWe showcase exciting and inventive stories and...

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From an early #Neurocracy design doc: "People like Eoln Msuk have the privilege to imagine some far-off scenario where we're all wiped out by sentient coffee grinders. We want to explore how AI and algorithms are adversely affecting lives today, because of people like Eoln Msuk"

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I never understood some brilliant minds obsessing over imaginary risks of "sentient AI going rogue" and singularity, while ignoring very obvious, very negative, and visible effects of tech (often developed by them and their employers) happening *right now*.

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It's textbook longtermism 👇

aeon.co

Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays

It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous

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From an early #Neurocracy design doc: "People like Eoln Msuk have the privilege to imagine some far-off scenario where we're all wiped out by sentient coffee grinders. We want to explore how AI and algorithms are adversely affecting lives today, because of people like Eoln Msuk"

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I never understood some brilliant minds obsessing over imaginary risks of "sentient AI going rogue" and singularity, while ignoring very obvious, very negative, and visible effects of tech (often developed by them and their employers) happening *right now*.

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Our Patreon is doing well enough to enable our 2023 re-run of #Neurocracy's TTARG campaign! 🥳 We wrote a Patreon post to illustrate why we're going again, what players got out of it the first time, and what's a TTARG please? 🤔

patreon.com

Neurocracy invites you to fall into a wiki hole again | Playthroughline on Patreon

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Neurocracy coining out the term TTARG for itself while I'm sitting here, amazed at how fitting it is.

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Neurocracy invites you to fall into a wiki hole again | Playthroughline on Patreon

Aug 5, 2022

Our Patreon is doing well enough to enable our 2023 re-run of #Neurocracy's TTARG campaign!

We wrote a Patreon post to illustrate why we're going again, what players got out of it the first time, and what's a TTARG please?

patreon.com/posts/neurocra

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Our Patreon is doing well enough to enable our 2023 re-run of #Neurocracy's TTARG campaign! 🥳 We wrote a Patreon post to illustrate why we're going again, what players got out of it the first time, and what's a TTARG please? 🤔

patreon.com

Official Post from Playthroughline

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Caught this generous write-up of #Neurocracy in a list of dialogue-heavy RPGs like #DiscoElysium ❤️ *Generous* because #Neurocracy features one (1) piece of dialogue. You may have to do some digging to find it 👀 ▶️ gamerant.com/dialogue-heavy

Neurocracy is a game that definitely takes some getting used to. However, the sooner players adjust to the gameplay that resembles clicking through Wikipedia articles, the quicker they'll be able to enjoy the intricate and incredibly well-written story.

In the words of its developers, Neurocracy is partially an alternate reality single-player game, and partially a hypertext novel. As players follow a trail of hyperlinks to uncover the mystery of the assassination of a prominent businessman, they simultaneously find themselves learning more and more about the dark reality of the game's version of the year 2049. The game is played entirely in-browser, and its first episode is available for free.

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Aug 4, 2022

Caught this generous write-up of #Neurocracy in a list of dialogue-heavy RPGs like #DiscoElysium ❤️ *Generous* because #Neurocracy features one (1) piece of dialogue. You may have to do some digging to find it 👀 ▶️ gamerant.com/dialogue-heavy

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1⃣ #Neurocracy is available for free in its entirety at 🌐 omnipedia.app 🌐 You can now jump to all episodes from Omnipedia's revision history and oops you fell into a wiki hole from the future! Here are just four of the 40 articles you may find during your dive:

A screengrab of an Omnipedia article about Typhoon 4109, a record-breaking extremely severe Pacific tropical cyclone that caused a swath of catastrophic destruction across Southeast Asia in 2041.

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A screengrab of an Omnipedia article about Second Advent, an unrecognised proto-state that occupies large parts of Texas and several territories of the United States (US) through political and military control.

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A screengrab of an Omnipedia article about Jjason Van der Grift-Jones (born September 7th 2011), known professionally as Jay ‘Earlybird’ Jones or simply Earlybird, an American former esports commentator, reality show designer, and entrepreneur.

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A screengrab of an Omnipedia article about Skynet, a 2045 Japanese-American science fiction action film set in the Terminator universe and billed as a “reimagining of the original film.”

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To see #Neurocracy mentioned in this selection of games sharing the 'interface fiction' label is a genuine delight! ❤️

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Rachel Helps

@Rachel_Helps

Jul 31, 2022

Hypno Space Outlaw is a recent example; Digital: A Love Story is a classic. Telling Lies (2019) and Cosmoserve (1992) are also examples. Wiki-likes like Neurocracy (2020) and Excalibur (2021).These kinds of games have been around a long time! They simulate modern or older tech.

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For real tho, I would not have been able to bring #Neurocracy to the finish line without the love and support of my wonderful partner 😘 She wrote this lovely thread on how we reflected her voice, her experience in Venezuela, and her future self in the world of 2049 🌐✍️

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Inés Petit

@laverias_

Jul 31, 2022

Ayer fue el cumpleaños del belga alto, y me parece que es el momento apropiado para compartir su patreon, para que el proyecto Neurocracy siga creciendo

hubo mucha investigación hablando con personas de distintos lugares del mundo para crear un futuro cercano plausible. twitter.com/playthroughlin…

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NEUROCRACY Retweeted

@IntFicPics

Jul 29, 2022

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