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A Borg-like Artificial Intelligence For Lionhead's New Game
cybaea writes: "The creator of Black & White is experimenting with new work on group minds - but unlike the Borg, the characters in the new game are already descending into bar brawls,
reports ZDNet UK, quoting Richard Evans (famous for the AI engine in Black & White). My favourite quote: '[AI] Characters [in the game] even have the ability to dynamically create their own language, constructing simple sentences on a word by word basis.'"
Last time I checked, half the dialog consisted of made up wurds, or |>hr4535...
-=Lothsahn=-
Looks like they won't be including the manual in pdf format :-P
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Jeez, I can't even do that! Next thing you know, your characters will be calling you dirty things in a language you don't even know! Who will be "Intelligent" then?
Great, now I can buy a video game to be able to fail a fitting in...
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
You apply your nice new nocd crack for the game. The characters, which are all pissed off cuz you are such a leet pirate, all walk out, flip you off, and format your hard drive for you.
Have you ever seen an intoxicated borg? No. Does that exclude the fact that you'll ever see one?
No! There's always seasons 2-7 of Enterprise. The borg will be so drunk or stoned off their ass that they'll focus on assimilating Archer's dog.
*arf* *arf *arf*
Translation: Resistance is futile.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
I wonder how long it would take for the little A.I. men to start trying to get the little A.I. women into bed.
It's worse than you think.
Those 13.6% are infact transported to a massive underground slave complex in Milton Keynes, where they labour on computers, remotely providing (in real time) the "intelligence" for characters in the "popular" computer game Black and White.
I've learned that my Black and White creature (Wally the Wolf) is in fact a lady named Jenny from Swansea, who was pulled over for doing 75 on the M4 last year. She says that if she messes up (and has Wally eat his own poop or something) then Richard Evans will hit her with a rolled up copy of the Milngavie & Bearsden Herald.
That's just plain wrong!
## W.Finlay McWalter ## http://www.mcwalter.org ##
Jesus, tell her we've been worried sick about her! WE MISS YOU, MOM!
She always did have a sort of funny way of eating her own poop, though... Don't get me wrong! It was endearing, really. We love her anyway. But now that I think about it, maybe this was all for the best.
I mean, a group of minds is not the same thing as a group mind.
Getting into a barfight dosn't seem like something the borg would do.
Even of they assimilate the vodka?
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
I hated B&W, but I might give this a shot...and it sounds neat to have them create their own languages...however, the MOMENT i hear one of the little guys spit out something like
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, i'm reformatting and selling my copy of the game =)
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
Did that actually work for you?
I agree on the micro management - the game made me feel like I had become the worst boss I'd ever worked for.
I always wanted to play the game more 'hands off' or even evil, but I admit it.. I couldn't resist those pathetic cries that would come from the windows machine 'Villagers need food!' 'People are dieing at the temple!'
Ever think Gates runs Microsoft that way? Thousands of developers.. He sees a crisis pop up, so he jestures some security engineers to 'go fix it'? And instead, they take a dump.
Ugh. I have, and it's been a waste of time. While there are many things that are cool, they're poor substitutes of interface (gestures -- cool, but ultimately frustrating for me) and A.I. (it's easier to teach a goldfish to dance than to teach these critters anything). In the end, it feels more like work to me to find "fun" in the game.
On the other hand, I swear the critters are TEACHING ME to do all the hard work managing the villagers, while pretending to be learning from me.
"Oooh... Master wants me to water the grains, and put grain into granary. Fine, I'll do it once."
"Again?! Okay, I'll pretend to forget how to do it so Master can demonstrate it a few more times. Heheh. Then I'll do it and he'll feed me... Life is goooood!"
This says nothing, just Your Mileage May Vary, and I'm glad you liked it -- because I knew a lot of people who don't.
We are Drunk of Borg. Resilience is floor tile. Wan'be sim'lated?
TyZone
One of the most annoying problems is that the creature associates rewards or punishments with it's immediately preceding action... if you went in to slap him for eating a villager, but he'd just started taking a dump, he'd keep eating villagers but hold it in till he was constipated >:(
"From now on, your creature will shit less"
"Nooo, where's the frigging undo??"