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Spore and intelligent design

2008-07-30 13:12:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...Intelligent Design . That should be okay with the religious crowd, although maybe they have problems with the whole god-sim concept More realistically is the scenario where nobody besides me makes any comments at all on the relationship between Spore and the conflicting theories of how man was created. If we ever see a big public protest...
 
Tags: spore, spore player, spore creatures, spore promotes, intelligent design, pink texture skin, religious, religious crowd, humanoid biped
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'Play Evolution': The Evolution of the Modern RTS

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2008-04-15 00:00:05 by jamesl in GameSetWatch
...intelligent. The more intelligent AI is, the less control the player has: when your units scatter and take cover at the sight of an artillery blast, theyll scatter in unpredictable directions, and sometimes in ways you didnt mean for them to go at all (like into a tank Moreover, the less control the player has over individual units, the less...
 
Tags: play, maintain competitive play, high-level play, play evolution, rts, heroes game, heroes, level, precise level
 
 
 
 
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Artificial stupidity

2008-07-05 07:13:49 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...intelligent races of them, a single adventurer can kill half their settlement in plain sight of the other half without anyone noticing or reacting. That is essential for soloable gameplay, but not very bright This explains why work on artificial intelligence in games advances so much slower than work on lets say graphics. There are graphics...
 
Tags: artificial stupidity, aggro management, artificial intelligence, aggro management mistakes, program mobs, mmorpgs, mmorpgs game companies, mobs, intelligent races
 
 
 
 
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Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Artificial stupidity

2008-07-05 03:16:40 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...intelligent races of them, a single adventurer can kill half their settlement in plain sight of the other half without anyone noticing or reacting. That is essential for soloable gameplay, but not very bright This explains why work on artificial intelligence in games advances so much slower than work on lets say graphics. There are graphics...
 
Tags: artificial stupidity, aggro management, artificial intelligence, aggro management mistakes, program mobs, mmorpgs, mmorpgs game companies, mobs, intelligent races
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: Why We Play - Today, Ill Stay Inside

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2008-04-22 16:00:00 by Chris Plante in GameSetWatch
...intelligent, rich, expansive criticism and analysis. Naturally, I assumed RPS readers were equally intelligent and thoughtful - guilty by association. So then what caused a small group of RPS commenters to attack the gaming habits of an eleven year old girl with Spinal Muscular Atrophy , forcing RPS to shut down the post's comment section A...
 
Tags: love, love life, madison, girl named madison, rps commenters, commenters, life, game, love vmk
 
 
 
 
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Opera Browser Now Available

2006-12-27 14:56:00 by getvisible in Nintendo Wii Console
 
...Intelligent Zoom feature allows consumers to read Web content on the TV from the comfort of their couch," said Reggie Fils-Aime, President of Nintendo of America. "Whether surfing the Web or playing a Wii game, users of all kinds will find fun, new experiences with Wii We are thrilled to have the opportunity to deliver our browser to Wii and...
 
Tags: browser, opera, wii, wii remote, opera browser, web browser, page, web page, opera software
 
 
 
 
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Nobody forces you to read this blog!

2008-03-19 07:53:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...intelligent discussion about various subjects, mostly centered around MMORPGs. Posting about controversial subjects and asking questions is very much part of trying to engage my readers in that intelligent discussion, and not an invitation to trolls to tell me that I'm not allowed to post that stuff My opinion on RMT has remained broadly...
 
Tags: rmt, rmt companies, companies, gold, gold seller, blog, game companies, game, gold sellers
 
 
 
 
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DS Review: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

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2008-01-29 00:40:45 by Brandon in Portable Video Gamer
...Intelligent Systems clear focus on creating a solid online mode more than makes up for it Graphically, Days of Ruin shows vast improvement over Dual Strike , both technically and artistically. The new art style fits in very well with the series and the refined combat, and the graphics themselves are a lot crisper and truly shine as a Nintendo...
 
Tags: single-card play, play, multi-card play, solid online play, friends-only online play, true single-card play, online play, advance wars, series
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: The Top 5 Game AI Trends For 2008

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2008-02-01 00:00:42 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...intelligent or terribly stupid enemies as developers try to move away from short-term scripting As ToddM points out Theres definitely a trend toward so-called sandbox games, and away from scripted games, which is expected to continue, and to create greater use of autonomous agents and everything that they entail. It seems that this is much...
 
Tags: aaa games industry, aaa games, sandbox, sandbox games, game, games, fps games, developers, game developers
 
 
 
 
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Hiding the Math

2008-03-07 05:39:50 by Damion in Zen of Design