On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:16 +0200, Josselin Perrus wrote: > I like your pitch except for the part "and that they can progress and > evolve by hacking other AIs".
Good to hear that you like it! Could you elaborate on what/why you like it, and what you don't like about "and that they can progress and evolve by hacking other AIs"? It would help to move forward and refine it. > But the question is then how does it tie meaningfully with the > gameplay ? The pitch is compelling and entails following questions > like : how do these AIs manifest themselves ? How do you interact with > them ? Maybe through something like what I described for the missions system: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=3435&start=0&; It helps to give them personality, and to use the interaction to give goals and missions. > What are they capable of ? Here are a few actions I listed before, that they could perform: - Meet/discuss with players in the game (AIs live on websites, so you encounter them by browsing the web) - Be captured/befriend and progress/evolve (turn-based minigame or mission actions) - Being taken care of (need to perform some actions every day/week to keep them in shape and prevent them from escaping - for example) - Breed with other AIs > What are their goals ? It could depend on the type of AI. Some could try to survive, some others would be interested in learning, other would meet other AIs, others discover who they are/meaning of life, others would conquer the world... Depending on the personality of the AI, this could give a large range of possible missions (a bookworm AI born out of a university website could need to visit resources websites every day to get more knowledge and keep evolving, while an AI born out of a anarchist website would want to hack federal agencies websites). Xavier. _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
