FIRMWARE

THE YEAR IS 2039. Wireless neural implants are legal, affordable and — the ads insist — perfectly safe. One in five job applicants already has one. Employers say it's optional.

Today, you get yours.

FIRMWARE is a short interactive story (15–20 minutes) about neurorights: the five human rights proposed for the age of brain technology. You will sign a EULA you cannot possibly read. Your neural assistant will be genuinely, wonderfully helpful. Everyone will be kind to you. And your rights will leave — one firmware update at a time.

FEATURES

• A branching story where the interface itself betrays you: the stolen decision looks exactly like one of your own
• 4 playable characters, each with their own reason to need the implant
• A CODEX with 13 documented real-world cases behind the fiction: EEG monitoring of workers and schoolchildren, PIN extraction from brain signals in lab studies, MIT's false-memory mice, and the Havana case — presented strictly as the story of a legal vacuum
• The five neurorights, plus a world status report: who protects your mind in 2026 (spoiler: almost nobody)
• Autosave, multiple endings, downloadable profile card
• No ads. No analytics. No data collection. A game about mental privacy that doesn't track you — that's not a feature, that's the argument.

Everything frightening in this game is anchored to something real. The CODEX tells you which is which.

Android version coming soon — want to be a beta tester? Leave a comment.

Chile put mental integrity in its constitution in 2021. Most of the world protects nothing. FIRMWARE exists so more people ask why.