{"id":13857,"date":"2024-05-11T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T22:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13857"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:14:55","slug":"beyond-futureworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13857","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Futureworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new dystopian adventure to announce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Beyond-Futureworld.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13858 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Beyond-Futureworld-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Beyond-Futureworld-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Beyond-Futureworld-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Beyond-Futureworld-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Beyond-Futureworld.png 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond Futureworld is my attempt to make a coherent and entertaining story using characters and settings from the 1976 movie Futureworld and the 1980 TV series Beyond Westworld.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a visual novel style game that has the player control John Moore as he attempts to solve a heist of Delos robots.<\/p>\n<p>I had the inspiration to make a game that combined stories from Futureworld and Beyond Westworld for some time, but I always had a major problem to overcome &#8211; the writing in the original movie and TV series is shockingly bad.<\/p>\n<p>But I think I&#8217;ve come up with a way around that by just retconning some of the more bogus elements of the various characters and settings.\u00a0 The story I&#8217;ve come up with diverges from its inspiration in multiple ways, so don&#8217;t expect to be following along with the plot of the movie or the series episodes.<\/p>\n<p>This does take about 90 minutes to two hours to play through, and it is a rather linear experience.\u00a0 There is a splitting point about two thirds of the way through, that will lead the player either to the good ending, or one of two bad endings.\u00a0 There is no battle or combat in this game at all, and as I stated above, it is very much a visual novel style experience.<\/p>\n<p>So get into Delos Headquarters and start talking to people and to robots!\u00a0 Download Beyond Futureworld for free here:<\/p>\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Install_Beyond_Futureworld_1.1.exe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beyond Futureworld (Installer)<\/strong><\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Beyond-Futureworld.7z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beyond Futureworld (7z file)<\/strong><\/a><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Works on Windows 7 and above, out of a non-system folder.\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a> on what to do with a 7z file if you&#8217;re unfamiliar.\u00a0 And take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=11971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the other video games I&#8217;ve made<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new dystopian adventure to announce. 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