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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Re: Game... Ever Tried Sim Anything?

[(trb001)]

Er, possibly, but I'd argue it's the fact that Sims opened up a previously untapped group of people to play...females. Check out Sims Online, over half the people on there are girls between 13-17. They never had a game that was a) fun, b) their type of game, c) didn't make them feel like a geek playing it (very important to girls, sadly enough).

My girlfriend (she's 20) and I nearly broke up over this game because I wasn't letting her play enough.

--trb

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

[Anonymous Coward]

You can go here to get both of those games (and more!) that run without an emulator and come in both Win32 and *nix versions. A really great archive of old stuff there. Plus lots of old NES and Super NES games that have either become abandonware or have entered the public domain can be picked up here as ROMs but you'll need an emulator to play those.

Nethack!

[ClioCJS]

They should use this in Nethack!

Especially the cool graphical version.