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The game is built using The Dreamers Guild's proprietary SAGA game engine. Serving as a backdrop is a plot involving 2 other supercomputers working within AM's circuitry to help the player to overthrow the artificial intelligence's malicious rule.

After 109 years of torture, AM gives the characters a new quest through their own personal hell by playing out each character's respective psychodrama, unwittingly giving them a chance to redeem themselves morally. The player takes on the role of each of AM's prisoners: Benny, the simian war veteran Ellen, the troubled corporate engineer Gorrister, the guilt ridden truck driver Nimdok, the inhumane Nazi scientist and Ted, the paranoid, narcissistic faux socialite. Each character has now been given a back story, gleaned throughout their respective stage within the game. Therefore, it came as a surprise when, in 1995, developer The Dreamers Guild and publisher Cyberdreams decided to flesh out Ellison's short story and turn it into a computer game of the same name.Īs a result of Ellison's subsequent collaboration with the game's designers, the expanded narrative in the game fits seamlessly with his original storyline.

Titled 'I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream', this allegory of hell, set after World War III, left much to the reader's imagination and could not be called a cheery piece of fiction by any stretch of the imagination. In 1967, famed sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison penned a story about 5 people being eternally tortured by a sentient supercomputer, known as AM ('I think, therefore I am.'), in a post apocalyptic world. Based on a short story by Harlan Ellison. Each with their own level and difficulty. You can play as a suicidal sociopath, a woman with a strong fear of yellow, a deformed monkey-man, a nazi torture expert or a cynical paranoid. What a strange and disturbing game this is. You are these five humans and you must defeat the computer god AM. The only problem with the war-happy computer god is that it destroys everything on the Earth. A giant war computer in the center of the earth has been turned on.

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