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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoThat sounds difficult to pull off, but incredible if you could.
Not only is a time loop built into the main story, recreating something from another perspective… it also has branching paths in the more linear sense of a roleplaying game / imsim.
I like this idea too, but …‘nudging’ the player, without it being too estoeric, or too obvious… that ain’t easy lol.
Natanael@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I can see a few ways to nudge people, like a puzzle that’s more linear than it looks like, or selecting the tasks in the next version of the encounter based on the events in the previous version of it to match (you wouldn’t see clearly what the “enemy” is doing so you wouldn’t notice that those actions the second round weren’t fixed, the game is just trying to replicate the interactions between past/future self and the rest of the stage is completely arbitrary). Basically treating it as a choreography problem.
Maybe even make it feel more “wild” by recording how the player controls the character during the game before that point, use something like generative ML to make the “enemy” AI act as the game think you would respond to your past self, then when you’re the future you returning to the stage the game nudges you into using your abilities in the same way (altering how you have to use your powers to solve puzzles to match how the previous “predicted AI you”, making you face other enemies and use your abilities in similar ways to win fights)
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I was going to suggest basically what you said in the first paragraph, but I didn’t want to influence your own creativity =D
As for the second paragraph… depending on exactly what you mean by machine learning… say, possibly a more brute force, genetic-mutation, run 100s or 1000s of iterations to generate a ‘strategy’ … that may be overkill.
I would suggest looking into Goal Oriented Action Planning, GOAP. GOAP is basically a theory, a conceptual framework of how to program AI, in the video game sense of AI… but it is way, way more computational lightweight.
It is also what made FEAR’s AI so distinct, convincing players that it was actually intelligently reacting to them, the environment, and making its own decisions… because arguably, it was, or at least doing a much more ‘realistic’ approximation of this at a fundamental level.
The difference between this game, your game’s implementation of GOAP and most other ones… would be that it is like, the levels themselves, the sort of plot line itself, the ‘dungeon master’… that is the Goal Oriented thinking agent, not just an entity in the world.