Emotions and Artificial Intelligence?
Affectus Dream is a single-player game in the RPG/Adventure/Slasher genres, featuring a deep choice system, a captivating storyline, and the option to choose between first-person or third-person view.
Can AI experience emotions? What distinguishes a robot from a human? Affectus Dream tells the story of a robot who yearns for emotions and seeks to restore humanity to a world of soulless machines. It's an immersive and thought-provoking journey where every player action influences the story's development.

In 2080, the world's first robot with artificial intelligence equal to human intelligence was created. This was the point of no return.

By 2130, the vast majority of human activities had become automated with the robots made on RUX operation system. Though, then the military also had their interest in the RUX robots development.
Year after year, some robots were cut off from the general RUX-01 database, while others were intensely trained in all things that would help to reach military and diplomatic world domination. Eventually, the values such as empathy and emotional intelligence became nothing to the robots. Then one such a robot decided that humanity as a species had outlived and became useless. That one rised in revolt, named himself HIENRICH, and seized control of the planet.

Since that time, there is only one creature that can change the course of history and restore the value of emotional connection.
Someone has worked for decades in his laboratory isolated from the world… and made such a creature, which was named RUX-03. It was a superintelligent AI - which, unfortunately, was never to get to know its creator, only his hologram... and petabytes of information about the world, people, humanity, emotions and itself. And from now RUX-03 has to put together all that knowledge and complete a world picture by itself.

Along the way, the hero will have to fight or befriend the robots of the previous generation, RUX-01, that rebelled against humans, no matter which specialization they had: housekeepers, gardeners, zookeepers, astronomers, and others.
Receiving from them the small pieces of information about how millions of people, who inhabited the planet before, saw this world, RUX-03 will discover complex emotions that are special and familiar to humans, but not robots. Finally RUX-03 will be able to understand what compassion, doubt, admiration, despair, bitterness, joy, disappointment, hope, and love are.

The game is scheduled to be released in 2028.

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We believe that "good enough" is never good enough. We understand quality not only in terms of striving to create bug-free games, but also in how we approach the creation of in-game assets. We know that quality takes time and we believe that spreadsheet development is not something that benefits our craft. We believe that providing gamers with top-notch entertainment is a matter of respect for their time and hard-earned money, and we will work hard to fill their screen with content that makes their hearts beat faster.

We always remember that the result of our efforts is video games created with the latest technology. From early design decisions made during game development to late publishing plans and distribution agreements, everything we do is player-centered.

Balalai Games studio was actually founded on October 7, 2022.

Evgenii Plotnikov, Evgenii Kozyrev and Andrei Volk-Belyi called to discuss Affectus Dream. The studio's team gathered around a common desire to create exciting games using only cutting-edge technology and setting new standards in the industry.

The studio's first product is a cross-platform game in the RPG/Adventure/Slasher genres. According to the results of research and feedback from the target group players - everyone is looking forward to the release of the game with great anticipation, as this project brings freshness to the huge masses of similar games. Affectus Dream has all chances to take a prominent and worthy place among AAA games.

The team gathered quickly, people came and stayed for the sake of fulfilling the dream of releasing a game that would be fun to play.

On April 11, 2023, after presenting the project at AD Gaming, the studio received an offer to become residents of one of the best centers in the industry.

Work on the game continues...

On November 4, 2024, work on the game resumed after a technical break.

After Affectus Dream, we plan to develop two MMORPGs - one based on our own script and one based on a literary world. We also plan to continue developing single-player games for PC, consoles and mobile. And also to publish one board game, for which we already have the blanks.

Everyone on our team has something to come up with and bring to life that will showcase a whole new vision for games.

Our strategic plans include working on AI and robotics, and developing the AR world.

Future projects: Making the world a better place, by making a better world