<s>
Galapagos	B-Application
:	O
Mendel	O
's	O
Escape	O
is	O
a	O
computer	O
action	B-Application
game	I-Application
developed	O
by	O
Anark	O
Game	O
Studios	O
and	O
published	O
by	O
Electronic	O
Arts	O
in	O
1997	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
of	O
this	O
,	O
Galapagos	B-Application
has	O
been	O
called	O
the	O
first	O
commercial	O
video	O
game	O
to	O
use	O
artificial	O
life	O
methodology	O
,	O
though	O
it	O
was	O
beaten	O
to	O
the	O
market	O
by	O
Creatures	B-Application
,	O
whose	O
development	O
cycle	O
overlapped	O
with	O
that	O
of	O
Galapagos	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
character	O
of	O
Galapagos	B-Application
is	O
AI-controlled	B-Application
and	O
only	O
indirectly	O
responds	O
to	O
changes	O
the	O
player	O
makes	O
to	O
its	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
synthetic	O
bug-like	O
creature	O
known	O
as	O
Mendel	O
(	O
named	O
after	O
Gregor	O
Mendel	O
,	O
the	O
founder	O
of	O
Mendelian	O
genetics	O
)	O
has	O
just	O
been	O
created	O
in	O
a	O
dystopian	O
lab	O
in	O
the	O
world	O
of	O
Galapagos	B-Application
(	O
a	O
reference	O
to	O
the	O
Galapagos	B-Application
Islands	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
player	O
character	O
has	O
full	O
control	O
over	O
the	O
laboratory	O
environment	O
and	O
wishes	O
to	O
subvert	O
their	O
plans	O
by	O
helping	O
Mendel	O
escape	O
from	O
the	O
lab	O
,	O
and	O
ultimately	O
leave	O
Galapagos	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
technology	O
used	O
to	O
create	O
Mendel	O
's	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
is	O
a	O
proprietary	O
system	O
called	O
Non-stationary	O
Entropic	O
Reduction	O
Mapping	O
,	O
or	O
NERM	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
environments	O
in	O
Galapagos	B-Application
were	O
created	O
with	O
a	O
proprietary	O
tool	O
called	O
Leveller	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
 [ ... ] 	O
in	O
Galapagos	B-Application
the	O
game	O
moves	O
the	O
camera	O
at	O
will	O
(	O
although	O
it	O
's	O
generally	O
centered	O
on	O
Mendel	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
concluded	O
,	O
"	O
Enjoying	O
Galapagos	B-Application
requires	O
time	O
,	O
patience	O
,	O
and	O
imagination	O
.	O
</s>
