HomeNewsDead Meat
Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great ideaKiller app
Killer app
Image credit:Meaning Machine
Image credit:Meaning Machine
I don’t want to talk to a game. I assume I’m not alone in this, because the tech’s been around for donkey’s and barely anyone tries to use it.Mass Effect 3tried voice commands.Socom U.S Navy Sealsshipped with a headset. “Dunno if I wanna be shouting out tacticool commands in my living room,“wrote a Redditoron the subject four years ago, speaking to my very soul in the process. “Gimme the clunky buttons instead”.
Thankfully, you can also use your keyboard to interrogate suspects in murder mystery Dead Meat. It’s a moody, slightly goofy noirpuzzlerthat lets you ask anything you want. Whether this means you’ll always get a worthwhile response, I’m not sure. “Want to discuss their alibi? Probe them on the meaning of life? Confess your love? Or just troll them mercilessly? Your words hold power, and anything goes,” reads theSteam page. Here’s a trailer.
Dead Meat - Official TrailerWatch on YouTube
Dead Meat - Official Trailer
All I can really say is this: Dead Meat looks interesting enough (perhaps even interesting enough for me to actually talk to it) and I’m still learning. I’m off to go have a re-read of thefour parter Michael Cook did on generative AI for us. Don’t do any murders while I’m gone.
