Borderline Fluent^™ press kit

2035. Every border has a machine, and every machine is listening. You are not who your passport says. Someone is paying for your flights. Don’t ask why.

Fact sheet

Title: Borderline Fluent
In one line: A voice story game: talk your way past AI border officers in 10 languages
Platform: Android, on Google Play
Release: Coming soon
Version: 0.4.3
Price: Free. No ads, no in-app purchases
Languages: 10 (Japanese in beta), at 79 airports in 24 countries, with subtitles and a translation for every officer line
Requirements: an Android phone with Gemini Nano, a microphone, at least 8 GB of memory and a 64-bit ARM processor; the game checks on first launch
Rating: a work of fiction, for players 18 and over
Developer: Fluffy Pants Studio
Publisher: Lampensoft, operated by Fluffy Pants Studio LLC
License: open source under GPL-3.0, source on GitHub

About the game

Borderline Fluent is a story game you play with your voice. You are a traveller with a cover story, and at every passport desk an android officer questions you in its own language. You answer out loud. It listens, checks your answers against your cover, and decides whether you pass.

After the desk, talk your way through the city: a taxi, a bar, a hotel. Different borders. Same machines.

Built on Gemini Nano

The game runs entirely on your phone’s built-in AI: no cloud, no account, and it works offline. The officers think with Gemini Nano through Android’s AICore; speech recognition and the officers’ voices run on the phone too. The game has no internet permission and no analytics. The camera is optional: if you allow it, officers notice when you look away.

I built Borderline Fluent to demonstrate the offline capabilities of Android’s AI platform.

Music

The soundtrack is written and performed by The Atomic Songbirds, the developer’s own band: “Main Theme”, “Machines Are Not Welcomed”, “She Speaks Languages”, “Walking on the Borderline”, “Borderline”, “Thalassia” and “Where Are You Going”, plus a taxi radio song in each language.