4th September 2004, 9:58 AM
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...You always have to bring everyone else down, don't you ABF?
;)
And I don't think that true AI would be needed for such an idea, but certainly programming far beyond that which we do today. Remember how Fable was originally promised to be (I'm not sure if it's actually the case..)? How you can leave a town for days/weeks/months/years and come back and the town will have continued living without your presence? Well, this wasn't actually the case (as that would require tremendous processing power), all they did was save what the town was like when you left it, and then simulate what could (did) have happened in the time that you were gone. People gotten older, moved house, died, hair styles, clothing styles, babies born.. all that sort of thing. Whether or not BBB pulled this off is one thing (as it's an intriguing idea), but perhaps the same sort of thing could be applied to stories? I don't know, it's 4am and I just woke up and I'm spewing out theories about a remark I made off the top of my head without really thinking about it.
However, programming and ways of telling stories in games will continue to progress. With every generation that passes, developers are taking what they know and expanding on it. Then new programmers come to the fore and expand on that. Perhaps in the future it could get to that level. As OB1 has said, videogames as a format is still in it's infancy. If compared to movies, perhaps we could say that where we are now is the equivilent of movies being in black and white (though I guess some would say that that would be 2D videogames). As one of my favorite forum-goers (from TeamXBox of all places..) once wrote, it's like videogames are still at a stage when even the people who make them don't understand their potential. Though, just recently with games such as Fable (or at the least, what Fable intended to be) have we just started to open the door, and peak through to the other side. It'll be quite some time before we are on that other side, though. :)
...You always have to bring everyone else down, don't you ABF?
;)
And I don't think that true AI would be needed for such an idea, but certainly programming far beyond that which we do today. Remember how Fable was originally promised to be (I'm not sure if it's actually the case..)? How you can leave a town for days/weeks/months/years and come back and the town will have continued living without your presence? Well, this wasn't actually the case (as that would require tremendous processing power), all they did was save what the town was like when you left it, and then simulate what could (did) have happened in the time that you were gone. People gotten older, moved house, died, hair styles, clothing styles, babies born.. all that sort of thing. Whether or not BBB pulled this off is one thing (as it's an intriguing idea), but perhaps the same sort of thing could be applied to stories? I don't know, it's 4am and I just woke up and I'm spewing out theories about a remark I made off the top of my head without really thinking about it.
However, programming and ways of telling stories in games will continue to progress. With every generation that passes, developers are taking what they know and expanding on it. Then new programmers come to the fore and expand on that. Perhaps in the future it could get to that level. As OB1 has said, videogames as a format is still in it's infancy. If compared to movies, perhaps we could say that where we are now is the equivilent of movies being in black and white (though I guess some would say that that would be 2D videogames). As one of my favorite forum-goers (from TeamXBox of all places..) once wrote, it's like videogames are still at a stage when even the people who make them don't understand their potential. Though, just recently with games such as Fable (or at the least, what Fable intended to be) have we just started to open the door, and peak through to the other side. It'll be quite some time before we are on that other side, though. :)
If i had a dollar for every time i ran out of hair in the middle of a spoon making contest id only eat your children with a side of slaw and THOSE ARENT PILLOWS!!