The Game
Quantum Noesis is the world’s first playable, NFT-based graphic novel.
EVI, the world’s first sentient AI, is under attack by those who will stop at nothing to destroy her. Use your wits to clear all twelve levels, win crypto prizes, and unlock the ultimate puzzle: the mystery of consciousness.
Synesis One aims to present several game titles to peak the interests of everyone in our community. This week, and over the next several weeks we want to share the details of our very first game title, Quantum Noesis (you can access the game directly from our website, Synesis.One too). It’s mental and we’ve worked really hard to create it from scratch for you! Those who can knuckle through the challenges, you will be rewarded.
What is the Game and How Do You Play?
In Quantum Noesis, you are an elite cyber security agent.
As a top gamer, YOU have been recruited by the Noosphere DAO, which has crowdsourced and gamified part of its security system. In the game, elite gamers jack-in to the metaverse using a neural link helmet. You are assisted by Pilar (short for Compiler), a wise-cracking sidekick program who translates code blocks into a form that taps into human creativity and intuition. There are 36 puzzles of increasing complexity — three per chapter. Solve the puzzles to advance the story and win crypto prizes along the way.
Quantum Noesis is a browser-based game built in Unity. To play, you need to have a Phantom Wallet with a Kanon token or an equivalent amount of $SNS tokens.
Can You Describe the Puzzles ?
Puzzles involve putting letters into a grid, assembling word fragments, or deciphering letter substitution codes.
Can You Describe the Environment?
The fictional world of Quantum Noesis touches on themes in our own world –
authoritarian governments using AI to increase surveillance and control and Big Tech Data-opolies using AI to manipulate and divide us. Like Noosphere, the fictional DAO in our story, synesis.one is aiming to build human centered, ethical AI for all.
What Does the Title Quantum Noesis Mean, and How did you come up with the Game Title?
Quantum Noesis is an amalgam of quantum — part of the AI is a quantum computer — and Noesis, a Greek word that means cognition or intelligence, or the exercise of reason. In Greek philosophy, it has the additional meaning of the highest kind of knowledge or knowledge of the eternal platonic forms. It took us three weeks to think up the right name —writing ideas onto a window because(we we didn’t have a white board). Some early game title ideas included:
- Practopoiesis
- Hylozoism
- P-Zombie
How Did the Game Come About?
Our challenge was to build a game using words from our NFTs. Naturally, this led our Head of NFT Gaming to consider word puzzle games — but he wanted to craft something more challenging than the word games many are familiar with, such as Scrabble, Wordle, or Words with Friends, and these games are based on manipulating individual letters. This conundrum led him to discover a legendary puzzle designer who is famous for fiendishly clever and challenge word puzzles — we’ll introduce our puzzle designer to you all in the coming weeks!
Who’s the Team Behind the Game?
Synesis One’s Head of NFT Gaming and Game industry veteran, Tracy Spaight put together our outstanding team of puzzle master, writers, and designers. The team includes:
- Puzzle Master Cliff Johnson, whose many awards include ‘Best Puzzle Game Ever’ and ‘Best Retro Game Ever’.
- Award winning artist and creative director Eric Jordan produced the concept art
- Artist Bohdan Kravchenko who created the beautiful graphic novel panels that tell the story.
- Cyberpunk novelist David Young, author of the Cyberpunk City series
- Writer Shawn Whitney
- Fabryka Gier, who have produced games for Playdom and Spil Games, is building the game.
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