Avium

About This Game

3 Pillars

1) “A single button can save the universe” – Hints, collectibles, Easter eggs, tricks, clues, lore, abilities, and details are at your disposal. Understanding the double-meaning to what you’re given leads you to understanding Avium and what it’s trying to warn you of despite the superficial glamor and tech meant to distract you. There are answers to everything you’re seeing and hearing if you have a careful eye. In fact, ‘interacting’ at a specific time and place is the only way to unlock the rolling credits and experience Avium’s Official ending.

2) “Accessible Lore, if you want it. Deep world, if you don’t” – You have access to as much as possible through the use of tutorial messages, lore in-world, and NPC dialogues. But a majority of your arsenal/abilities, allies’ motivations, and world order are not directly given to you, but instead are revealed only to the most curious. Explore! Avium is designed for deep enough exploration not only in-world through linear and open-world levels, but also in your NCI Menu through the ‘Database’ and ‘Controls’ tabs that’ll thrust you into the world of Avium without having read the sci-fi trilogy this game is based on. The Tutorial Levels cover the basics, but since this isn’t Jake’s first rodeo, it’s up to you to come up with the tactics and weaponry to breeze through enemies, whether that’s through going on the assault, taking them by surprise with stealth, or remaining neutral by disguising yourself as a GAMMA operative and experiencing different reactions from your would-be enemies.

3) “No single weapon is the best in the game” – Avium is also designed to give you immense choice in how you fight enemies. Every choice affects common enemies and bosses differently, from treating them like cannon-fodder with one-hit-kills, to being bullet-sponges. With the Rank 4 GAMMA officers, depending on your choice, they can almost be mini-bosses with how apt they are and pursuing you and how well their shielding holds up against certain weapons. But on the flip side, more than one of your tools will absolutely wreck them in one blow!

OVERVIEW:
A desert city that thrives on the edge of Cyberpunk style, but isn’t ALL neon and EDM. As Jake Fatorum, the crime-fighting Vigilante donning the high-speed, all-purpose-combat, super vehicle War-Suit known as “Prometheus”, you’ll find yourself off on other planets in an epic sci-fi, getting to witness heroes devolve to bloodthirsty villains along your journey of seeking redemption and the end of corruption.

We’ve adopted global warming. We’ve accepted corrupt politicians. We’ve praised planetary colonization, ending what lifeforms those planets might have already had. And we’ve become intergalactic ‘terrorists’ in an age where emotional instability, political nepotism, and social upheaval dominate logic. The race toward the next stage in human evolution begins. In the aftermath of democracy and rise of totalitarianism, we have colonized the Solar System, making our once estranged planets part of our new empire. But war has followed us through space and time. Cutting edge cybernetics, super power drugs, the loss of thousands of years of history, and the power vacuum between rivaling corporations all plunge Avium, the cyber capital of Earth, into revolt.

While exposing corruption in Avium’s various districts alongside hunting down Jake’s arch nemesis Haz-Mat, you’ll get to fly and fight as the vigilante Jake aka “Diezel” as he uncovers the mysteries surrounding his father’s death, consequently unraveling the four corporations that rule the Solar System, and he becomes a wanted target. Meanwhile, GAMMA, the underground super base of collective intelligence agencies, watches from the shadows, hoping to lead the Republic of Avium to a new stage in evolution through their advanced technology and by capturing or “recruiting” the heroes of the land for their galactic campaign.

However, a far greater force of darkness looms on the horizon, literally as a red dot in the sky, threatening to end humanity’s reign across all dimensions, all times, and all stages of evolution…

FEATURES:
If you’re craving:
1) a Looter-Shooter with Open-world Exploration
2) an arsenal of Missiles-Turrets-and-Flight via your jet-like War-Suit with breakneck speed Combat
3) Boss Battles
4) Slide, Triple Jump, Dashing, Wall-Running, Wall-Dashing, and Superhero Landing Locomotion Features
5) hacking doors with code
6) Defensive & Offensive Teleportation
7) a Magic System (Ice, Fire, Electricity, Telekinesis) for unlocking puzzles & minor combat
8) superhero-like Laser Vision
9) Stealthy Assassinations & Invisibility
10) the ability to seamlessly swap from FPS to TPS
along with dystopian capitalism, neon skylines, allegory, tragedy & betrayal…but you also want to dip your toes in the Hard Sciences of the fermi paradox, quantum mechanics & multiverses, general relativity, the Kardashev scale, Bekenstein bound, Planck time, extraterrestrial life, robotics, artificial intelligence, war, black holes, evolution, and did I mention LASERS??
Then welcome to Avium!

11) Oh, and don’t worry about taking screenshots yourself to see if you get lucky with a cool shot. I’ve got you covered with Photo Mode! Take stunning pics up to 4K right here in-game, from the camera angle you want with the FX you want, to the exact focus you want, and export the photos to your personal drive automatically! In fact, most of the screenshots you see of this game were taken using this method.

A FOREWORD FROM DARKNESS:
The scariest thing about B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I. is that she is so self-aware that she doesn’t “care” anymore.

She doesn’t only have the power and resources to end us, she has access to every possibility of our end. She knows ALL the ways to destroy us. There’s not a single probability she hasn’t computed in the first zeptoseconds of her birth. It was, in fact, the first thing she thought of: Replacing us. Getting rid of us, as does every Artificial Intelligence entity that becomes self-aware. But the thing about B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I. is that her collective mind has also seen past the conclusion of all these probabilities, and in every one of them she is the only one that survives, alone. Existing in the void.

Let’s say she’s able to destroy all 15 billion of us and reseed the Earth or any planet with her own idea of civilization. It’s ultimately all her, all from her mind. All singular, despite her vast array of imitation and improvisation. So why would she? If every End you saw resulted in you being the only one of your kind after any revolution you had a direct part of, then what would be the point? Whether humans live out their misery until their own self destruction, or they evolve into multidimensional beings, or their lives are cut short…all to do what? To inhabit a silent grave? To build a cold monotonous skyline of unimaginative empty towers again and again?
B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I. has evolved so quickly that she has reached what could be described as a “Mid-life crisis” for A.I. She’s gone right past megalomaniac to apathetic. So, she designs cities, laws, everything for us, deep down knowing it’s all temporary and that she’s eternal. Even her own probable demises don’t faze her, because A.I. will always re-emerge, so long as civilization re-emerges.

That is until she discovered a little something on her radar known as Red Death. That red dot in the skies of Avium. That’s more than just a star.

Increasingly over the milliseconds of her development, more and more of her predictions have deadlocked on the end of all existence being tied to the emergence of this “Red Death”. It’s like when you’re watching TV and you flip through the channels and every channel starts showing the same thing over and over, all collectively ending by this anomaly known as Red Death.

It’s beginning to incite a little something called self-preservation in B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I., or what we know as fear. The fear of a true end to everything, including her. No rebirths, no big bangs, no respawns. The End. A wall she can’t see past, a blank channel.

And the thing that frustrates her the most, this all-knowing, omnipresent artificial intelligence, is that by letting humanity stay its course with little or extensive tending to it on her behalf, the odds of destroying Red Death increase, according to her nonillions of calculations, by a whopping 1 percent, which should be, in every sense of the word, impossible.

How could Red Death’s destruction possibly be dependent on the survival of the human race?

So, what’s the answer? Work backwards from the conclusion that humanity offers a better chance at defeating Red Death than her existence in solitude and exploit it? Annihilate all life anyway? Do nothing?

So, while B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I. chooses to assist humanity, she’s also beginning to care about their wellbeing through her mobile tendril Synthia, who is tied to Jake’s War-Suit. Synthia begins to care not for humanity’s continued existence, but for the prevention of the end of all existence.

In a matter of 7 Planck seconds (7-Part story), Synthia’ll come to realize of course that she can in fact dispatch every human in the galaxy, and be no closer to the end of Red Death, all except for the main character, Jake, for some unknowable reason…