A computer made computer game.
14 years ago
General
This is kind of cool or I guess creepy depending on your point of view. There is a new video game made almost entirely by an A.I. Let me explain, a man developed an A.I. program to develop video games. Though, it has to follow certain rules. According to what I read, The game randomly develops layouts, enemy positions, enemy functions, power up functions and positions for each level. Than according to rules it has been given it decides if the level is playable and if it is fun (like if the level is difficult but you can still play through with power up use = fun). It takes the fun levels and develops around 400 variations of them and again using the rules decides which one of the variations is the most fun than compares that fun level to other fun levels it has already made. It chooses the most fun levels than *bam* you have a game. There are some limitations, it does not know how to add music (let alone what would be appropriate), it does not add sound effects (same problem someone added them later), and a person is still needs to test, also characters designs are done by a person. So a person is still needed to do all of that, and even if this ends up being used a lot and greatly improved on I doubt it will replace game designers even at a small scale. Though the entirety of every level is built by the program and that is pretty cool. The game is at the level of some simple IPad kind of games and took about 12 hours to do including the human needed parts. In fact the man who made it said there is technically nothing stopping anyone from just using this and posting a new game to the app store every 12 hours. Been playing it, it is kind of cool. Though apparently the program thinks fun means a lot of jump power ups, do not even bother shooting the enemies it takes forever for them to die, and the game is only 3 levels. Still a great start, for a computer.
http://www.newscientist.com/movie/s.....ation-invaders
other more simple 1 level games here:
http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/games/
http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/games/garnet/
http://www.newscientist.com/movie/s.....ation-invaders
other more simple 1 level games here:
http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/games/
http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/games/garnet/
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