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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.
'''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]]''.
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]]''.
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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Well, the AI ''was'' inspired partly by GLaDOS...
* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Well, the AI ''was'' inspired partly by GLaDOS...
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: The Game.
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: The Game.
* [[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.}}
* [[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.
* [[Color-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.
* [[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.]]"
* [[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.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Rogue AI has a very Hal-esque red eye.
* [[Rule of Fun]]
* [[Rule of Fun]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: The developer says in the notes that the AI has been inspired by other famous rogue [[A Is]] such as HAL-9000 from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', ''[[System Shock]]'''s SHODAN, ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'''s GLaDOS, Skynet from ''[[The Terminator]]'' and WOPR of ''[[War Games]]''. Specific references to them include:
* [[Shout-Out]]: The developer says in the notes that the AI has been inspired by other famous rogue [[A Is]] such as HAL-9000 from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', ''[[System Shock]]'''s SHODAN, ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'''s GLaDOS, Skynet from ''[[The Terminator]]'' and WOPR of ''[[WarGames]]''. Specific references to them include:
** SHODAN: The same loathing of humans and all organic lifeforms, and sometimes its stuttering speech pattern.
** 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.
** 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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** Other shout outs include:
** Other shout outs include:
*** The [["Three Laws"-Compliant|Laws of Robotics]] are mentioned and subverted.
*** The [["Three Laws"-Compliant|Laws of Robotics]] are mentioned and subverted.
*** 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."
*** 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 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.
*** 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]].
*** 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]]''.
*** 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.
* [[Sweat Drop]]: Displayed by panicking researchers and mechanics, and also others rushing to stop you hacking a terminal.
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