En-Mercs comic

A new piece of work is in, this time for a character that up until now didn’t have form; the Artificial Life. I can’t really say much about this character as it is so integral to the plot, any details would pretty much be spoilers.

What I can say is this is the being that is responsible for bringing the three En-Mercs together to liberate it from the research facility – and effectively beginning a coup d’état on humanity.

The difference between an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and an Artificial Life (ALife) is pretty interesting. An AI is taught with a top down approach to get about e.g. to solve a maze, if you hit a dead end then turn around and remember not to come back there – eventually the AI will escape the maze.
An ALife is very different, as it employs a bottom up approach – effectively learning from scratch and creating its own rules to ‘survive’ (with maybe a few pre-programmed rules to get it started).
If you could make your own rules to survive and witness humanities penchant for violence as a threat, what would you do about it…?

Remember to check out the preview of the first and second issues of the En-Mercs comic by clicking on the links here or in the sidebar!

This is new mech instalment, the Grunnian (aka Grunt) bot, from the ever-talented Saejin Oh. The level of detail is breathtaking and you can clearly see that in the video with the attention paid on the linework.

The Grunnian, affectionately nicknamed a “Grunt”; this mech was designed for multi-purpose infantry support. Despite its small size and slow speed it is quite durable, can adapt its role in the field via modular arm weaponry and act as cover for the infantry it supports. Its various arms provide such operational flexibility like anti personnel, vehicle and aircraft weapons, extra physical shielding, repair tools, heavy lifting etc.

We’ll also be doing something interesting with this one for the upcoming trailer, so keep posted for that…

Check out the Grunnian’s other images on its profile page, more videos over at the video section too and let us know what you think of this latest image by commenting below.