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Everything Cool in Games -- OUT of the Mainstream
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Genocide Automation, which was featured at Sense of Wonder Night (an indie game showcase at the Tokyo Game Show), is less a game than an exploration of flocking behavior and cellular automata.
Two swarms appear at opposite corners of the play space, and attempt to destroy each other (it's not entirely clear what the combat algorithm is). Individual motes in the swarm obey some set of flocking algorithms that seem to be represented by the data displayed in the right column, though it's hard to know what that's showing, since it's in Japanese. Both sides "learn" from failure, modifying algorithms next time to try something else -- I'm not clear whether evolutionary learning algorithms are used, or whether behavior modification is simply random.
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Well thankya kindly Mr.
Well thankya kindly Mr. Yankee.
Had a fun night in an expat bar, dishing in the whole spectacle. Tole the Argentine news people I think the whole think is a fascist focus group, theater to give people something to believe in. I'm glad the red, white and blue dick that's fucking the American people and their grandchildren finally got some KY lube.