architektura: Control (video game)

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Control is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment. It follows Jesse Faden, the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), a secret U.S. government agency that investigates and contains phenomena that violate the normal laws of reality. As Jesse, the player explores the Oldest House–the FBC's headquarters–and uses paranormal abilities and a shapeshifting gun known as the "Service Weapon" to combat the Hiss, a hostile, otherworldly entity that has invaded and corrupted the FBC. Players unlock new powers by locating Objects of Power, mundane objects imbued with energies from another dimension. The Oldest House has four sectors that can be explored at a nonline…

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The Ashtray Maze is a fictional location and level in the 2019 action-adventure game Control, developed by Remedy Entertainment. Located within the Oldest House, the headquarters of the fictional Federal Bureau of Control, the maze initially appears as an impassable series of corridors which continually rearrange themselves. Late in the game, protagonist Jesse Faden is able to traverse it while listening to "Take Control", a song by the fictional band Old Gods of Asgard, performed by Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall. As Jesse fights enemies, the surrounding walls, floors and passageways repeatedly move and transform. Remedy developed the sequence for almost a year. Game director Mikael K…

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The 2019 action-adventure video game Control, developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by 505 Games, received several pieces of downloadable content following its release. Remedy's post-release programme included the free Photo Mode and Expeditions updates and two paid story expansions, The Foundation and AWE. The Foundation, released in March 2020 for PlayStation 4 and Windows and in June for Xbox One, continues the game's main storyline as protagonist Jesse Faden investigates the foundations of the Oldest House and the origins of the Federal Bureau of Control's relationship with the Board. It introduces a new area, enemies and abilities based around manipulating crystalline formati…

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Cosmology of Kyoto (京都千年物語, Kyoto Sennen Monogatari; lit. "Kyoto Thousand-Year Monogatari") is an adventure game developed by Softedge and published by Yano Electric. It was released for Japan in 1993, and then in North America, for the Macintosh in 1994 and then for the PC in 1995. It is a game where the player, from a first-person perspective, explores the ancient city of Heian-kyō (Present-day Kyoto) during 10th–11th century Japan. The game lacks a clear goal, but is instead nonlinear and emphasizes open exploration, giving players the freedom to explore the city and discover many pathways, buildings, situations, stories and secrets. The game deals with historical, horror, religious and…

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A Metroidvania, also known as Search Action (探索型アクション, Tansaku-Gata Akushon) in Japan, is a sub-genre of action-adventure games focused on nonlinear exploration and guided progression with a need to acquire key items to enter certain areas. The term is a portmanteau of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania, based on the template from Metroid (1986), Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987), Super Metroid (1994), and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997), among others in their respective series. These games usually feature a large interconnected world map the player can explore, although parts of the world will be inaccessible to the player until they acquire special ite…

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A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences. Each may take on (or even encounter) only some of the challenges possible, and the same challenges may be played in a different order. Conversely, a video game with linear gameplay will confront a player with a fixed sequence of challenges: every player faces every challenge and has to overcome them in the same order. A nonlinear game will allow greater player freedom than a linear game. For example, a nonlinear game may permit multiple sequences to finish the game, a choice between paths to victory, different types of victory, or optional side-quests and subplots.…

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Jesse Faden is a fictional character created by Remedy Entertainment and the protagonist of the 2019 video game Control and downloadable content expansions. Portrayed and voiced by Courtney Hope, Jesse enters the headquarters of the fictional "Federal Bureau of Control" (FBC) while searching for her younger brother Dylan, who was taken by the organization following a paranormal incident during their childhood. Chosen as director of the Bureau by extradimensional entities, she leads its surviving personnel against an invading extradimensional force known as the Hiss. Jesse was developed as an outsider to the secretive bureaucracy of the FBC and as a contrast to Remedy's earlier video game pr…

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Phase Boundaries and Critical Transitions in Coupled Epidemic-Behavioral Systems.. Epidemics are nonlinear adaptive processes in which pathogen spread and human behavior form a tightly coupled feedback loop. Individual decisions about protective measures create strategic interactions. These interactions can either accelerate disease spread or drive collective suppression. We introduce a theoretical lattice-based agent model that fuses SIS contagion with an evolutionary game, systematically exploring how strategy choice and infection pressure co-evolve through comprehensive parameter space analysis. Agents choose between self-isolation and normal activity based on population-wide disease pre…