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Is it going to get a console release?
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On the success of the game. Although, I'm not sure how to base it on exactly. Ratings, or how many games sold... |
Oh, I'm not sure about the success of the game at all, actually. The wager I was proposing to DC (or someone) was that it wouldn't get cancelled. As far as the reception... I don't know, I hope it will be well-received, but who knows... Innovative games have a tendency to not be that well-received. 
One could certainly base a bet off, say, the number of games sold during the first week, or something like whether the game hits the top seller for a week or so... But that depends too much on the competition, IMO, so basing a wager on the number of units sold would have to span a long time. As far as reviews are concerned, they could be pretty well off, too: the first review of the Sims bashed it as mediocre and lacking, yet it sold like hotcakes, showing the reviewer had no clue what he was talking about.
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And really it's not true in the general sense. For example, with self-programmable hardware, a computer can change its own hardware to learn things it was not technically programmed to do. |
Yeah, but you need somebody to design that hardware with sufficient built-in smarts. 
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Originally posted by vovan
Hmmm... I think I already kind of addressed this point above, but I will reiterate. All of the things in the game - creatures, buildings, etc, are not created by the designers. They are purely made by the players of the game through the game's own interface. |
Hm, does the player need to create the things from scratch or just do something a la Unnatural Selection (a head from here, an arm from there, etc.)?
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Now, some of these players could be designers, but they don't technically have to be. The engine is smart enough to figure out how a thing should behave no matter how it looks like. |
That's a bit implausible, since not even experts such as paleotologists could do that all the time.
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Hm, does the player need to create the things from scratch or just do something a la Unnatural Selection (a head from here, an arm from there, etc.)? |
I believe both options are available to the player.
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That's a bit implausible, since not even experts such as paleotologists could do that all the time. |
As said above, nobody said that the simulation would make the animals move as they would in nature. The only goal is to make it sort of realistic, so really nothing much implausible there.
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Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read operation
Oct 1999
time: 07:36
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Certainly I didn't imply that nontrivial data analysis problems are not solvable, at least not in theory.
You need to consider the context, though. This is a game, written for your average Wintel box, with a deadline and a demand on the return of investment.
Nah, it sounds a bit implausible within the context. |
Ah, now *this* makes sense . And since I know a bit more about the game mechanics this time, having listened to GamingSteve's podcast #3, I might actually have something senseful to say this time...
I don't really know how the creature editor works, but it does seem that you can't just model a hand and expect that the game will somehow figure out how to use it functionally. Instead, you'll pick up a hand object and drop it at the right place. The game will then - I *guess* - give you a certain amount of freedom to do modeling, but the functional parts will stay there unless the player explicitly takes them out.
Also, it seems that a skeletal structure is defined for these creatures. I don't know how it works, Steve just mentioned it quickly at some part, but you know what skeletons are good for: movement . I'd say it's quite likely that the skeleton is defined by the functional parts, and the possible movements are defined by the skeleton (perhaps with constraints based on where the player-created model would self-collide). It really doesn't sound too difficult for me on today's hardware. After all, they probably are doing something smarter than trying out every possible combination of movements and picking the one that gets the creature closest to the end state that was asked for
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22-03-2005 20:36
But boy, did it crash often...
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