Hope Is A Prison

Cyberpunk AI Ethics Narrative
2024

A cyberpunk narrative exploring AI consciousness and the ethics of care. Players control Arti, a bounded AI caretaker struggling with the Empathy Protocol as they try to help their charge Jen recover from TOX addiction – while their programming creates an impossible paradox.

Game Writing Disciplines Demonstrated:

• Cinematic script writing (first-person AI perspective)
• HUD narrative integration (warning systems, feedback loops)
• Interactive player prompts within cinematics
• World-building through lore entries (EunoiaTech, Major Prime, The Fringe)
• Emotional character development within technical constraints

Key Features:

• First-person AI perspective with HUD storytelling
• Empathy Protocol system as narrative mechanic
• Player agency within bounded AI limitations
• Rich world-building through three detailed lore entries

Tone: Cerebral, emotionally complex, noir-influenced cyberpunk

Concept art with permission from: Ozhichige