The Restaurant Game Project
The Nut Graph:
This is a pretty cool idea, take learning algorithms, add the average Joe's desire to make video games professionally, toss in a slick 3D interface, advertise on Digg, ask for 1000 participants. Hit 1000 mark easy, up mark to 10k.
I've always been a fan of indie development, most of the time we see new trends and innovations there first because they are more likely to take risks. Developers have a lot of pressure on them to produce a game that's acceptable for their publisher (see: have to), and publishers from my experience are concerned with the bottom line. As they should, seeing as how they have kindly given the developer multiple millions of dollars on the assumption they will turn out a consumer friendly title capable of selling and recouping the initial production cost and well beyond.
This project looks as though it could do some very interesting things... assuming that the software doesn't decide to veer away from restaurant sim'ing and turn to making better, faster, and stronger bipedal humans with which to wipe out humanity.
I'm a big fan of computers not thinking, we have enough crazy people in the world that do far too much thinking (or in some cases not enough). Many of them already have itchy trigger fingers that hover centimeters above big red buttons. Well I'm an opponent of adding any such powers to the world.
I'm not saying all thinking machines will hire a certain Californian Governor to murder important people in the past to help them in the future, I'm just saying we should do our best to keep guns away from the machines. Machines don't kill people, gun wielding machines bent on world domination kill people. Well, them and zombies, zombies kill millions.
The Restaurant Game Project - Sign up, get your name in the credits :p
\\drew
Contribute to the first collaboratively authored computer game and earn Game Designer credit!The Meat Graph:
The Restaurant Game is a research project at the MIT Media Lab that will algorithmically combine the gameplay experiences of thousands of players to create a new game. In a few months, we will apply machine learning algorithms to data collected through the multiplayer Restaurant Game, and produce a new single-player game that we will enter into the 2008 Independent Games Festival. Everyone who plays The Restaurant Game will be credited as a Game Designer. It's never been easier to earn Game Designer credentials!The Take:
This is a pretty cool idea, take learning algorithms, add the average Joe's desire to make video games professionally, toss in a slick 3D interface, advertise on Digg, ask for 1000 participants. Hit 1000 mark easy, up mark to 10k.
I've always been a fan of indie development, most of the time we see new trends and innovations there first because they are more likely to take risks. Developers have a lot of pressure on them to produce a game that's acceptable for their publisher (see: have to), and publishers from my experience are concerned with the bottom line. As they should, seeing as how they have kindly given the developer multiple millions of dollars on the assumption they will turn out a consumer friendly title capable of selling and recouping the initial production cost and well beyond.
This project looks as though it could do some very interesting things... assuming that the software doesn't decide to veer away from restaurant sim'ing and turn to making better, faster, and stronger bipedal humans with which to wipe out humanity.
I'm a big fan of computers not thinking, we have enough crazy people in the world that do far too much thinking (or in some cases not enough). Many of them already have itchy trigger fingers that hover centimeters above big red buttons. Well I'm an opponent of adding any such powers to the world.
I'm not saying all thinking machines will hire a certain Californian Governor to murder important people in the past to help them in the future, I'm just saying we should do our best to keep guns away from the machines. Machines don't kill people, gun wielding machines bent on world domination kill people. Well, them and zombies, zombies kill millions.
The Restaurant Game Project - Sign up, get your name in the credits :p
\\drew
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