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Agence places the fate of artificially intelligent creatures in your hands. Will you help to maintain their peaceful existence, or throw them into a state of chaos? A dynamic film that merges cinematic storytelling, artificial intelligence, and user interactivity, Agence is never the same twice.

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Mixed (20) - 55% of the 20 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Sep 28, 2020

Developer:

Transitional Forms, National Film Board of Canada

Publisher:

NFB / ONF

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Features

Tracked Controller Support

Profile Features Limited

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔	✔
French	✔		✔
German	✔		✔
Japanese	✔		✔
Korean	✔		✔
Simplified Chinese	✔		✔
Spanish - Latin America	✔		✔

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Includes 16 Steam Achievements

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Title: Agence
Genre: Casual, Indie, Simulation

Developer: Transitional Forms, National Film Board of Canada

Publisher: NFB / ONF

Release Date: Sep 28, 2020

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Awards

Official Competition:
- Venice International Film Festival - Venice VR Expanded - 2020 Edition
- Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal - 2020 Edition

Official Selection:
- IDFA DocLab Collection - 2020 Edition
- BFI London Film Festival - LFF Expanded - 2020 Edition

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“Agence… gives a taste of what the future of AI filmmaking could be.”
MIT Technology Review

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About This Game

Agence places the fate of artificially intelligent creatures in your hands. Will you help to maintain their peaceful existence, or throw them into a state of chaos?

A dynamic film that combines cinematic storytelling, artificial intelligence, and your interactions, Agence is never the same twice.

So, will you interfere with intelligent life? As intelligent creatures, the Agents will respond in unexpected ways.

They could maintain their harmonious existence, or they could become aggressive with one another. Some could even fall off of their planet into the infinite abyss below. You’ll also notice the Agents express fear, curiosity, boredom, or excitement using vocalizations and facial reactions.

In the Agents’ universe, you can:

Watch emergent narratives unfold as you wield your power from planet to planet;
Plant magical flowers that can impact the Agents’ behaviour and change the way they interact with each other;
Move the Agents around to interfere in their existence. You can separate them from each other to avoid conflict, help them achieve balance, save them from falling off the planet, or fling them into the abyss;
Rotate the universe to observe the Agents, and see how the narrative plays out from different vantage points;
Add Agents into the experience that have been pre-trained by human engineers; using reinforcement learning—a system of goals and rewards that allow the Agents to think and act on their own.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ (or later)
Processor: Intel or AMD Dual Core at 2 GHz or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Graphics 4400 or better
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 400 MB available space
VR Support: SteamVR
Additional Notes: Minimum System Requirements for 2D version

Recommended:

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 400 MB available space
Additional Notes: Minimum System Requirements for VR version

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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