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US Army To Invest $50 Million In Game Development
$50 million in funding has been approved for the Army to establish a unit that will develop games. The purpose of the games will be to train soldiers for various tasks, and they say there is no intent to compete with commercial games. We've previously discussed other efforts by the Army to integrate games into their training programs.
"Col. Mark McManigal, the capabilities manger for gaming under the Training and Doctrine Command, said the selected game must provide low-cost training and must not require large number of technicians to run. It must also have a play-back function for after-action reviews, he said. 'One of the major events for training is to be able to capture all these events, good or bad, throughout the entire scenario,' he said. Trainers must be able to edit the game during play to change the difficulty level or add complexity to an exercise. For example, they must also be able to edit terrain to replicate training areas or combat zones, he said."
Deja vu means the trainer changed something.
The hard-core difficulty level will result in actual death of the player.
There won't be any cheat codes.
What they need are some simulations to help with military micromanagement. This guy would be very helpful in such an area as a consultant. He has mad micro skills.
How about a nice game of chess?
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
The thing you don't know is the US army has secretly perfected the art of robotics, and has done for sometime. Well, android would be a better term, as they look just like regular human marines. However Ai is somewhat lacking, hence the need for human operators to control them. This is where america's army comes in... (Im not mad you know).
"I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine." -Jack Thompson
US troops are cheaters. They use all those hi-tech weaponry and the other teams only have AK's, knives and home-made explosives.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Billy Mc Asshat was brought before a military court yesterday accused of team killing, he was summarily sentenced to death by firing squad.
Dunno, maybe it was originally marketed as a fast-paced shooter, but it sounds more like it's gonna be a MMORPG to me. You know, "Farmer Tariq cannot harvest his olive groves because they are overrun with insurgents. Bring the turbans of 12 Al Qaeda in Iraq members, 12 Shiite extremists, and 12 Iranian intelligence agents to Farmer Tariq for your reward." Or, "The Coalition cannot patrol Main Street because it is lined with improvised explosive devices. Find and disarm 20 IEDs and bring them back to Sarjeant Slothrop for your reward." Sounds like a lot of endless grinding to me.
"Pvt. Johnson! What's the holdup in there?"
"The terrorists moved the dining room table to the foyer!! All our strategies are fucked!"
"Damn! Call in an airstrike!"