New tech idea from indie film!

[Galacticat42]

So I've been subscribed to Corridor Digital on Youtube for a while now and I absolutely love their stuff. They're a small group of multi-field* artists that make movie clips and in one particular case, a feature-length indie film. This film, titled Sync was produced by Bammo, but directed and given special effects by Corridor Digital. I haven't really thought about it until now, but what would yall think of a tech in the game fashioned after the 'sync' technology in that movie? We have all the prerequisite techs readily available, but no actual tech that takes it as far as that movie does.

*They mostly do CGI special effects, but they can also direct, form lighting, play music, etc.

Watch the movie here then discuss.

DISCLAIMER: Although it is a feature-length, 1 hour 43 minute film, it was not illegally uploaded to youtube. It is, in fact, a youtube exclusive video.

 

[Thunderbrd]

Cool... I will watch that later.

As an aside in the meantime, have any of you ever heard of the movie Lunopolis? It's available on Netflix streaming. A very odd storytelling method is employed there (its an independent film too) but some of the theory in it is really really interesting stuff. Reading between the lines of what they're actually suggesting is probably not exactly mind blowing to most of us here but is pretty profound nevertheless. (Hint: Involves time travel and the entire history of mankind)

 

[strategyonly]

I dont get it, sorry

 

[Galacticat42]

I dont get it, sorry

What don't you get?

 

[strategyonly]

What don't you get?

None of it, what is it, what it has to do with C2C, or Civ IV, everything??

 

[Nimek]

What techs you are talking about?

 

[Galacticat42]

The 'Sync' tech. A mix of C2C techs, but we never really touch down on what this movie does. The conscience of the human is uploaded to a cyborg. Every time the cyborg with human conscience dies, it uploads its conscience into a new 'shell' or body. Really a perfect excuse for units to just carry all of its promotions in exchange for a giant maintenance.

 

[Hydromancerx]

@Civ Fuehrer

Yeah the stuff from Corridor Digital is awesome. I have seen a few of their videos like the "Glitch" and "Dubstep Guns". This one was very cool but isn't it already covered a lot with the body exchange stuff? This just seems like its the same "shell" body stuff as Avatar or Ghost in the Shell.

I would say its a good movie but as for new ideas, seems like its been done before.

EDIT: Don't we even have some promotions like "Phoenix" or whatever its called that allows a unit to cheat death?

 

[strategyonly]

EDIT: Don't even even have some promotions like "Phoenix" or whatever its called that allows a unit to cheat death?

Already in the works.

 

[Galacticat42]

I was thinking, it would be a cool idea if the civ that builds the Sync corporation gets 1 free, hidden hero unit. That unit can then teleport (rather transfer shells) to any city on the map with that corporation in it. Whenever the unit dies within a certain square radius to any city with that corporation, the unit revives with all promotions. However, if the unit dies outside a certain radius to the nearest city with the corp, it revives without any promotions. The unit dies permanently when the corporation no longer exists.

 

[Hydromancerx]

Sounds cool. I don't suppose you might want to help mod that would you?

 

[Galacticat42]

Sounds cool. I don't suppose you might want to help mod that would you?

I could outline the idea and theoretical XML tags needed, but other than that, sorry. I'm retired from Civ modding. I know the pattern I get into when I mod for Civ and it's a pattern I really don't want to fall into again.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

I only managed to watch the first 15-30mins or so of the movie so it struck me as just an early implementation of what the movie "Surrogates" took to one possible extreme, ie everyone staying at home and commuting via shells/surrogates. The movie itself looked good and I may still get time to watch it in full at some stage.

 

[Galacticat42]

I only managed to watch the first 15-30mins or so of the movie so it struck me as just an early implementation of what the movie "Surrogates" took to one possible extreme, ie everyone staying at home and commuting via shells/surrogates. The movie itself looked good and I may still get time to watch it in full at some stage.

Ehh, Surrogates is similar, but the technologies are really far from each-other. In Surrogates, people stayed at home and used a device to remotely control a robot.

In Sync, the cyborg -is- the person. There is no human left. There is no satellite necessary for operation. When one shell dies and he can't upload his memory, a backup is loaded into another shell and it's like before never happened. Effectively, it's making a neural computer and filling it with a human conscience.