Infinite Games?

Anonymous Coward writes "BBC is running a story on how US scientists are working on improving AI - with potential benefits for coming games. The system, called Liquid Narrative allows to avoid scripted storylines, and finally gives us, the gamers, full freedom to do whatever we want to do. R. Michael Young, the project coordinator, says: 'Game companies are realising that story telling has a lot of potential that has not been tapped yet.'"

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It's about time

[CleverNickedName]

Finally computer game story lines are catching up with pen-and-paper RPGs.

Now if the graphics and audio could only improve on my imagination...

Re:I've been playing infinite games for years.

[alister667]

Yep, soon the researchers will have made up enough ground to come up with *ELITE*. Greatest game ever, and totally open ended.

Slashdot is aiming way too low

[RobotWisdom]

This article is a thumbsucker for technical illiterates, and an insult to Slashdot's readership. It gives zero insight into game design that hasn't been an industry cliche since the glory days of Infocom (20 years ago). Self-promoters make these boasts on a weekly basis, so Slashdot editors should know enough to refuse to link stories unless they include usable new content.

The problem that 'Liquid Narrative' is addressing goes back at least to George Polti's "36 Dramatic Situations" in the year 1900. My AI faq gives infinitely more perspective than this BBC pap, on the important questions. (It's getting a little stale, but I'm currently revising the timeline with lots of rich resources.)