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Fact sheet
| Title | Cog Wars |
| Developer | AlienMachine.ai |
| Genre | Top-down twin-stick arcade shooter |
| Platform | Desktop web browser, free to play (Windows, macOS, Linux; phones and tablets not yet supported) |
| Engine | Unity |
| Made with AI | Yes: sprites and gallery art are AI-generated. Music is original. Details under “How it’s made” below |
| Status | In active development. Latest build notes in the devlog |
| Website | cogwarsgame.com |
In one line
Scour the multiverse, destroying enemies and collecting golden cogs, and chase the high score. Cog-powered upgrades, new universes to unlock and online leaderboards are coming.
The idea
The omniverse is woven from a fabric of sub-quantum golden cogs, and each cog holds an infinite set of omnipotent observers. That is the secret framework of the multiverse. Cog Wars is an arcade game played on top of that framework, and an art project exploring it, built in the Unity engine by AlienMachine.ai. More in the Cogverse.
Features
- Twin-stick arcade combat with keyboard and mouse or a gamepad
- Five universes, each with its own physics, enemies and guardian boss (bosses in development)
- Five weapons, with cog-powered weapon upgrades coming soon
- Five cogs of power that bend gravity, time and space, each with three upgrade tiers (tiers coming soon)
- A score-chasing arcade loop, with online leaderboards against other players and friends planned
- An in-game Codex that reveals the lore as you play (in development)
How it’s made
Cog Wars is made by a human developer working with AI tools, and we’d rather say so plainly than leave you guessing.
- Music: original compositions by the developer, made on synthesizers. No AI.
- Art: the in-game sprites and every piece in the gallery are generated with AI image tools. The developer directs them and picks the results by hand.
- Writing and code: the lore, the Codex and the game’s code are written with AI assistance, under the developer’s direction and editing.
- Design: the game’s concept, the Cogverse, its rules and its look are the developer’s.
Assets
The gallery has every piece of art on the site, up to 1024 × 1024 pixels. The social card image is at /static/og/cogwars.jpg.
Contact
Use the feedback form and choose Press / business, or email contact@cogwarsgame.com.