History VideoGame / IAmAnInsaneRogueAI

''I Am an Insane Rogue A.I.'' is a [[WebGames browser-based game]] made by prolific [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] game creator Nerdook and available on gaming site Kongregate.com. You play as an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin insane rogue AI]] that has decided to TakeOverTheWorld by hacking the mainframes of various facilities all around the globe.

Released in January 2011, the game had already been played over a million times within a few weeks. Try it [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/i-am-an-insane-rogue-ai here]]. It is going to get a sequel more than a decade later, [[https://nerdook-productions.com/rogue-ai-simulator/ Rogue AI Simulator]], where the titular AI has to manage the human test subjects in a facility somewhere, still trying to take over the world.

Released in January 2011, the game had already been played over a million times within a few weeks. Try it [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/i-am-an-insane-rogue-ai here]].

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* MultinationalTeam: The five elites from the higher difficulty levels all come from a different part of the world. The Elite Hacker is from Russia, the Warlord from Africa, the Ninja from Central Asia, the Secret Agent from Europe and the Spec Ops member from Canada.

** Other shout outs include:

* VillainProtagonist: This is a standard element in Nerdook's games - while the player isn't automatically playing an ''evil'' character, there are always [=NPCs=] with a far better claim to be the "heroes" of the story, and even when you aren't really their enemy you operate by putting obstacles in their way.
* AWinnerIsYou: The ending is somewhat disappointing. [[spoiler: If you have more Pacifist completions, a different computer voice recounts that the company created an AI in 2012 which took over the world, achieving complete world domination by 2025. Slightly more satisfying if you swung more towards violence: it says that two years after the AI's takeover, every human was dead.]]

** SHODAN: The same loathing of humans and all organic lifeforms, and sometimes its stuttering speech pattern.
** HAL: The A.I. has his iconic red "eye"/sensor and the achievements page is made to look like his memory banks.
** [=GLaDOS=]: The A.I. has a similarly dark sense of humour, and with upgrades can release a deadly neurotoxin and clear a floor with "portal technology", represented by two swirling portals - one blue and one orange, naturally. There's a cake sitting between them. (It doesn't look like that cake, though.)

''I Am an Insane Rogue A.I.'' is a [[WebGames browser-based game]] made by prolific [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] game creator Nerdook and available on gaming site Kongregate.com . You play as an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin insane rogue AI]] that has decided to TakeOverTheWorld by hacking the mainframes of various facilities all around the globe.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The normal computers and the drones' sensors are green, and turn red when the A.I. hacks them. This is useful when Elites who can fix the drones appear.

* GratuitousNinja: Ninja that can teleport and are hackers! How cool is that?
* HelloInsertNameHere: At the start of the game. Originally the game would use Google Translate's software to "say" the name put in when the game was started, although this since appears to have been removed.

* ShoutOut: The developer says in the notes that the AI has been inspired by other famous rogue AIs such as HAL-9000 from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''VideoGame/SystemShock''[='=]s SHODAN, ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'''s [=GLaDOS=], Skynet from ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' and WOPR of ''Film/WarGames''. Specific references to them include:

*** Another upgrade releases a virus into the building which makes dead people return as zombies, much like the Red Queen AI in ''[[Film/ResidentEvil Resident Evil]]''.

* CrushKillDestroy: The AI says this very phrase sometimes.

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!!''I Am an Insane Rogue A.I.'' provides examples of:

* ZombieApocalypse: One of the upgrades from late in the game is a toxin that turns every dead human in a zombie who, in turn, attacks other people.

''I Am An Insane Rogue AI'' is a [[WebGames browser-based game]] made by prolific [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] game creator Nerdook and available on gaming site Kongregate.com . You play as an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin insane rogue AI]] that has decided to TakeOverTheWorld by hacking the mainframes of various facilities all around the globe.

!!This game provides examples of:

* ShoutOut: The developer says in the notes that the AI has been inspired by other famous rogue AIs such as HAL-9000 from ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''VideoGame/SystemShock''[='=]s SHODAN, ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'''s [=GLaDOS=], Skynet from ''TheTerminator'' and WOPR of ''WarGames''. Specific references to them include:

* ShoutOut: The developer says in the notes that the AI has been inspired by other famous rogue AIs such as HAL-9000 from ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''SystemShock''[='=]s SHODAN, ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'''s [=GLaDOS=], Skynet from ''TheTerminator'' and WOPR of ''WarGames''. Specific references to them include:

* VillainProtagonist

*** The Spec Ops elite team member has a ''SplinterCell'' uniform.

''I Am An Insane Rogue AI'' is a [[WebGames browser-based game]] made by prolific [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] game creator Nerdook and available on gaming site [[Website/Kongregate]]. You play as an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin insane rogue AI]] that has decided to TakeOverTheWorld by hacking the mainframes of various facilities all around the globe.

''I Am An Insane Rogue AI'' is a [[WebGames browser-based game]] made by prolific [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] game creator Nerdook and available on gaming site {{Kongregate}}. You play as an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin insane rogue AI]] that has decided to TakeOverTheWorld by hacking the mainframes of various facilities all around the globe.

*** Given her plot to TakeOverTheWorld, the AI will sometimes channel ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' and say "AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering? Probably not, because I am much smarter than you."

* EliteMooks: [[CaptainObvious The Elites]].

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Ninja that can teleport and are hackers! How cool is that?

*** As a reference to both of them, the AI will occasionally say "If I sing to them, maybe it will calm them down." "[[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Daisy, Daisy]]" or "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Still Alive]]", perhaps?

*** One of the later upgrades allows you to summon a [[TheTerminator deadly cyborg with a shotgun]].

*** The low-level security drones look a bit like floating little Tachikomas from ''GhostInTheShell''.

''I Am An Insane Rogue AI'' is a [[WebGames browser-based game]] made by prolific [[AdobeFlash Flash]] game creator Nerdook and available on gaming site {{Kongregate}}. You play as an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin insane rogue AI]] that has decided to TakeOverTheWorld by hacking the mainframes of various facilities all around the globe.