A month-ago Mr Robot launched their full-on VR experience at 2016 Comic Con that brought the fans of the USA Network’s Golden Globe Award-winning drama TV show chance to experience their favourite characters in a 12-minute Virtual Reality simulcast stunt. Now the creative team behind the successful TV show gives you a chance to fully immerse in the world full of hackers, cybercrime and evil corporations. In the new texting game, you’ll be using E-Corp messaging app to communicate with characters from the show in real time by making dialogue choices that later-on affect your progress in the game and its story-line. Welcome to Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltratiOn.
Crafted by Night School Studio, award-winning creators of adventure video game Oxenfree, and published by Telltale, studio known for its adaptations of The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, the game connects you with the show’s underground hacker collective known as fsociety, a rogue group determined to “reset the status quo”, by a found burner phone which belongs to Darlene, played by Carly Chaikin, one of the main protagonists of the show. She needs her phone back, so that the events taking place between the first season’s fifth and sixth episode can be put in motion.
You need to text different characters from the show and employees of their target corporation. And as the game plays out on its own schedule you are constantly reminded constant that you aren’t in control. Sean Krankel, cofounder of game developer Nightschool Studio, explains that they: “timed out exactly how long it takes to type out each specific line, so that it feels more real when players sit there anxiously watching the ellipses and waiting for the next message – it feels like a little cliffhanger, ” and because of this fact “you sometimes have to sit and wait on pins and needles for a response. I see players saying, ‘OMG, I’ve been waiting for Darlene to text me back for an hour!’”
The E Corp Messaging app which is available to download from both Apple App Store and Google Play Store is just the interface for a $2.99 mobile game. Let us know in the comments, if you can help deliver a vital document that would allow fsociety carry out a major hack against their evil enemy.
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