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Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody-make-a-quake-3-LBP-port dept.

Laurens writes "Despite slow sales of LittleBigPlanet in the USA, you might have heard of the calculator made within the game, but now that has been topped. I found a fully-functioning AI machine which plays Tic-Tac-Toe against the player. Considering that you can't actually program in LBP, this feat is impressive; it is a machine which has mechanical AND and OR ports made of pistons and proximity detectors, a physically moving Program Counter, and hundreds of wires. The level is called 'Tic Tac Toe' and is by author Cristel." Another player created a similarly amazing level that is a recreation of John Conway's Game of Life.

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  1. In the Future... by wasmoke · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see it now:
    Posted by JConnor on April 21, 2011, @08:45PM
    Another Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet
    John writes
    "This new AI, playfully named Skynet, was created to help students in Africa reach for the sky and learn to play checkers. Support this effort by downloading the fun new application."

  2. Ahh, Youtube comments by Protonk · · Score: 5, Funny

    They make me feel better about the level of discourse here at /.

  3. Re:Is anyone playing this game? by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look up at the top of the page and read the smaller words just to the right of the site name. "News for nerds"

    You might be a gamer, and after looking at your comment history I note that you're even a tech. But if you don't see the appeal in making things like this, then you aren't a nerd.

    --

    Technoli
  4. Re:Yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...wait until the level gets taken down by Sony with no explanation!

    Why the hell would they do that?
    Let me guess, because you think they're evil right?

  5. The most powerful...Mr Mom. by Ostracus · · Score: 2, Funny

    And LBP is the only way that the Hypervisor (the babysitter OS in the PS3) will let you access the full 3D capabilities of the system for homebrew development!

    (Of course, Sony owns anything you make...)

    I just made a baby. Glad I don't have to support him.

    --
    Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
  6. Re:The most powerful... by Antity-H · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems the irony of using an amazingly powerful digital computer to emulate a simple mechanical computer is completely lost on you ...

  7. Re:Does it know the winning move though? by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. I want to play Global Thermonuclear War.

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  8. Re:The most powerful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    YO DAWG, we heard you like computers so we put a Turing engine in your Turing engine so you can compute while you compute.