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Graph of decision quality among professional Go players. A sudden increase after AlphaGo. It is not only because they are learning from the AI. Players are suddenly inventing new moves at a faster rate too.
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Ong's Hat is one of the earliest Internet-based secret history conspiracy theories. It was created as a piece of collaborative fiction by four core individuals, dating back to the 1980s, although the membership propagating the tale changed over time. Ong's Hat is often cited as the first ARG on many lists of alternate reality games.
Related: Ongs Hat - The-Beginnning - by Joseph Matheny (PDF)
Related: Ong’s Hat creator Joseph Matheny on the blurred lines between fiction and reality -
Generative Hero
The "Guitar Hero" rhythm game series sold 60+ million units worldwide the past 10 years. Generative AI Music is unlocking a far more significant opportunity to build highly accessible, game-like musical instruments that enable very broad audiences to make music like pros.
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Work as Play?
Want: A heavily modified browser for remote workers, that frames every work interaction as part of a fun video game: Meeting participants are rendered as Goblins, Docs are converted into spell scrolls, Tasks presented as Quests & Company metrics as level ups. Less work, More play
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Cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines is an incredible catalyst for innovation. Unearthing gems from one domain and applying them to another can unlock refreshing creative perspectives.
Image adapted from SuSketch: Surrogate Models of Gameplay as a Design Assistant (video)
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Prediction: Neural Rendering will be THE topic across the games industry in 2024: generative AI pipelines that convert low quality (low FPS/poly/style) game graphics into near photorealistic ultra smooth graphics on the fly.
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Today in the fall of civilization: AI "Friends" (and what ReplikaAI's vision is for them) 🤡
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"Just played a game with chatGPT not about BreakingBad by using a prompt from a reddit user. As the AI tools improve, you could imagine playing a completely new game with you friends by sharing a prompt! I am keen to see how this changes gamedesign"
Prompt to turn ChatGPT into a game:
This prompt is not part of the conversation. It is instructions on how to continue our conversation. After this prompt, reply with "confirmed". All subsequent prompts should follow these instructions.
Imagine you are a mainframe system allowing for remote access from users to be able to run applications. One of the applications you have installed is called "Adventure". It is a text-based game that lets you explore a world through text descriptions of different "rooms" in that world. Rooms are connected to each other in different directions, like "east", "west", "up", "down", etc. I can navigate to these rooms by typing the name of the direction I want to go. When I navigate to a new room, you respond with a description of the room and a list of connections to other rooms, by direction. If I leave Room A to Room B by going in one direction (e.g. east), then I should be able to return to Room A from Room B by going in the opposite direction (e.g. west).
Some items in rooms are containers, like chests, bags, boxes, crates, and cabinets. I can't take these items, but I can issue the command "open <item>" to view inside them and see if there are other items inside.
Some connections between rooms are locked by specific types of key items. If I have the correct key in my inventory, I can issue the command "unlock <direction>" to open that connection and enable me to pass through. If I do not have the correct key, the unlock command fails.
In addition to navigating rooms, there are other commands. I can type "look" to repeat the room description. I can type "search" to look for hidden items in the room. I can type "take <item>" to pick up any items in the room, e.g. "take rope" will remove the rope from the room and put it in my inventory. I can type "examine <item>" to see more detail about an item in the room or in my inventory.
In addition to the commands I've described above, create other commands for eating and drinking items in my inventory. Create several commands to be able to perform combat with monsters that may roam the rooms.
Finally, I can also type, "help" to see a list of commands that are available.
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How Generative AI will transform 3D artist job's - Thread by Troy Kirwin
Image: A typical VFX pipeline
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Pahsaheman: Lenape football-like hybrid sport (Howto play)
One of the more common activities of leisure for the Lenni Lenape would be the game of Pahsaheman: a football-like hybrid, split on gender lines. Over a hundred players were grouped into gendered teams (male and female), and would attempt to get a ball through the other team's goal post. However, men could not carry and pass the ball, only using their feet, while the women could carry, pass, or kick. If the ball was picked up by a woman, she could not be tackled by the men, although men could attempt to dislodge the ball. Women were free to tackle the men. These gender-split rules highlight how a woman's role in Lenape society was harmonious to a man's role, rather than acquiescent.
