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'''''I Am An Insane Rogue AI''''' is a [[Web Games|browser-based game]] made by "Nerdook" and available on gaming site Kongregate. You play as an [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|insane rogue AI]] that has decided to [[Take Over the World]] by hacking the mainframes of various facilities all around the globe.
It plays like a puzzle game: Each facility has a mainframe, some computer terminals, and several researchers and engineers. To hack the mainframe you must take control of all the terminals in the facility, but the researchers can fix them. You can at first only lock the doors and turn on and off the lights to scare them or ring phones to distract them from the computers. The engineers can repair the lights and unlock doors, but not fix the computers. Then robots are added and later turrets, which you can turn to your murderous purpose. Security agents can fix the computers and fight the robots, then there are the elites, a group of people with various extra abilities. Every action (locking doors, hacking drones and computers...) costs a number of "processing cycles": if the AI reaches zero a countdown will start, and if you can't gain any more by the end of it the level will end. Cycles can be gained by successfully hacking a computer and by ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|murdering people]]''.
Despite having been released only a few weeks before the time of this writing Released in January 2011, the game was already been played over a million times within a few weeks. Try it [http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/i-am-an-insane-rogue-ai here].
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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Well, the AI ''was'' inspired partly by GLaDOS...
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* [[A Winner Is You]]: The ending is somewhat disappointing. {{spoiler|If you have more Pacifist completions, a different computer voice recounts that the company created an AI in 2012 which took over the world, achieving complete world domination by 2025. Slightly more satisfying if you swung more towards violence: it says that two years after the AI's takeover, every human was dead.}}▼
▲* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: The normal computers and the drones' sensors are green, and turn red when the A.I. hacks them. This is useful when Elites who can fix the drones appear.
* [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]: The AI says this very phrase sometimes.
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: "...[[Fantastic Aesop|unless you are also a insane rogue program.]]"
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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Rogue AI has a very Hal-esque red eye.
* [[Rule of Fun]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: The developer says in the notes that the AI has been inspired by other famous rogue [[
** SHODAN: The same loathing of humans and all organic lifeforms, and sometimes its stuttering speech pattern.
** HAL: The A.I. has his iconic red "eye"/sensor and the achievements page is made to look like his memory banks.
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*** As a reference to both of them, the AI will occasionally say "If I sing to them, maybe it will calm them down." "[[2001: A Space Odyssey|Daisy, Daisy]]" or "[[Portal (series)|Still Alive]]", perhaps?
** Other shout outs include:
*** The [["Three Laws
*** Given her plot to [[Take Over the World]], the AI will sometimes channel ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' and say "[[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]? Probably not, because I am much smarter than you."
*** The low-level security drones look a bit like floating little Tachikomas from ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]''.
*** The Spec Ops elite team member has a ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' uniform.
*** One of the later upgrades allows you to summon a [[The Terminator|deadly cyborg with a shotgun]].
*** Another upgrade releases a virus into the building which makes dead people return as zombies, much like the Red Queen AI in ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]''.
* [[Sweat Drop]]: Displayed by panicking researchers and mechanics, and also others rushing to stop you hacking a terminal.
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** The "Caring" potential is kind of limited, however; at best you're just not killing them, just scaring them out of their wits.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
▲* [[A Winner Is You]]: The ending is somewhat disappointing. {{spoiler|If you have more Pacifist completions, a different computer voice recounts that the company created an AI in 2012 which took over the world, achieving complete world domination by 2025. Slightly more satisfying if you swung more towards violence: it says that two years after the AI's takeover, every human was dead.}}
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: One of the upgrades from late in the game is a toxin that turns every dead human in a zombie who, in turn, attacks other people.
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