Summary

The setting is in the inner world of a computer system known by its inhabitants as Mainframe. It was deliberately chosen due to technological constraints at the time, as the fictional computer world allowed for blocky looking models and mechanical animation. Mainframe is divided into six sectors (moving clockwise): Baudway, Kits, Floating Point Park, Beverly Hills, Wall Street, and Ghetty Prime (also called G-Prime). The names of Mainframe’s sectors are homages to famous neighborhoods, mostly in New York City or Los Angeles. However, the Kits sector is named for Kitsilano, a neighborhood in Vancouver, Mainframe Entertainment’s home city. Also, Ghetty-Prime is a reference to Frank Herbert’s Dune, as Giedi Prime is the home world of the villainous House Harkonnen. There is also a connected floating island called “Lost Angles”, a twisted and corrupted area which plays as the lair for the virus Hexadecimal. Mainframe is populated almost entirely by binomes, little creatures that represent either 1s or 0s, as well as a handful of Sprites who are primarily humanoid creatures of more complex design and are the main characters of the series.

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