Thank you, that is a well-received compliment. :) |
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zerothis: Yes, I think that's a straightforward way to improve it, though it would require some significant manual work to tell it "this was the part that was bad". I wanted to see how far I could get with only positive evidence. It's impossible to use playfun on the stock market unless I have a way of simulating the future, in which case much simpler approaches would suffice. :) If you have one let me know...
jared: Recognizing video output is pretty hard, though some people have had some success with it for simple games. I think the hardest part of MMO-like games would be learning a high-level strategy. Current techniques don't work at all here, at least not in the general case. BTW, I don't agree that all languages are pretty much the same. Maybe the ones you listed. But I'd say that C++, JavaScript, Standard ML, and Prolog are all very different, and learning to be a good programmer in lots of very different languages will expand your mind.
Thank you very much, andrea. :) |
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You're amazingly sick. I salute your genius. |
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So I was looking for a font for a game I have been working on. I found one and it referred me to your site which referred me to this blog. I have to say This is a very interesting concept.
I got the programming bug when I started my CIS degree and found I loved C++, C, .NET, C#, Object C... Sadly I never got to finish my CS degree though I did get my CIS degree.
In all my years of programming I have learned a few things: All programming languages are about the same, arrays are nasty the more dimension you add to them, and programming auto configuring arrays is the worst.
I mostly make silly games for the iOS and Android devices.
When I read this and watched the video I was reminded about how I thinking about doing something like this some years back...
Computers are operationally driven. I mean as they do one thing then the next. Humans seem to be pattern recognition driven. I not certain I have a full grasp of what you are doing but I think you are scanning the memory and the software generates the understanding of what to do on a pattern as it sees you playing to learn objectives. Is that accurate?
I Thought about using Linux and modifying some chat AI software in conjunction with visual pattern recognition software and usb hook ups and a video capture card to play something as complex as an mmo that comes from another computer.
when you boil it down the rules in an mmo are simple. find it > do function > return.
The key would be figuring out how to utilize recognition software and alter aspects, which to be honest I don't think I have to know how to do, to make in find the right kind of patterns on screen or screen input.
The reasoning I have for this is after spending many a night playing such video games I true believe with out scanning the memory and using pattern recognition software one could make a computer to function on par or even better than a human player.
Nice project and it looks really cool. |
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Why not add a 'bad' training session to teach playfun behaviors to avoid? I realise it probably can't be done with one training. But you could pause a long time, pause and unpause repeatedly, get hit a few times (for some games), engage in some other time wasting activities, before dying. Then playfun would have data about subtracting from the objective function and therefore, hopefully, try to avoid such subtractions.
And why not try it on real the wall street by feeding it actual stock market ticker data, rather than an 8-bit simulation? |
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Awesome. Dude, you are the best kind of weird.
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Alright, I'll see what I can do, and I'll be sure to contact you once I have some results. Time to learn some C++! |
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furrysalamander: GetAnswers::FetchWork in netutil.h calls ConnectLocal. Should be reasonably straightforward to add a ConnectRemote function and call it there instead, especially if you're just hard-coding some address constant. |
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This one is attempting to be generic, so it has to learn what to do just from watching me play. The paper at tom7.org/mario explains everything! :) |
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Thanks! :) Rutgers is one of my favorites, too. Good choice. I wish I could get back into whatever groove I was in that summer. |
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Brilliant. I wrote a stupid thing to beat Bank Panic on Mame years ago - no idea of how you implemented playfun - Bank Panic was quite simple to beat on a functional level but what about understanding the playfield? I basically quickly scanned the screen for some pre-stored patterns (a gun, a coin back, the red dot you're supposed to aim at... etc.) and then acted accordingly. GO MACHINES! |
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Thank you! I've loved this song in particular but also all your other chiptunes ever since I first found your site. |
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Part of the design philosophy of the tutorial is to not hide any gameplay mechanics from you... They typically force you into a situation where you see the behavior of the tile being introduced before you need to use that behavior in a straightforward way, then in a way that is a consequence of what you know, but that you haven't seen. That said, I guess I don't really have any problem with deep spoilers for the tutorial, since as you say the point is to teach the game and people have different learning styles. (In my case, I learn better when I had a hand in "figuring out" what someone is trying to teach me, which is the reason for that design.) Unfortunately right now I'm on vacation and can't post spoilers, cuz I don't remember how the end goes. :) |
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Sure, please do! Thanks for asking :) |
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Hmm. The issue of big spoilers has been covered, previously. I don't want to spoil it for others who do not want it, so here's what I'll say: Describe what you've been trying as a spoiler comment for that tutorial, so we can see what is holding you up. Another mild hint: how are you going to get around that laser, and note that sometimes a bit of repetition is required to solve a level. |
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Doesn't help, I had that already. 90% of the time with this kind of thing the "spoiler" is not something I missed about the level but something I didn't know about the game, eg the ability to pull blocks as well as push them. So I am absolutely looking for maximum spoilers. It's just too bad your game is not popular enough to have YouTube videos of the answers, because without them I will not get to play any more. |
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You're a cool motherfucker. |
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Giving the solution itself would be too much of a spoiler, but a hint is that the transponder on the right above the rough an be pushed up and used. Hope that helps. |
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Will you please post the solution for the tutorial level 20 at escape.spacebar.org/f/a/escape/level/749?spoilers=1 ? There's no point allowing people to get stuck on the tutorial, since it's probably for lack of explaining the game rather than logic problems. |
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Hi Tom 7,
I would like to use part of one of your songs (Rutgers) in an intro for my 'chufflangs' YouTube channel. I'm happy to credit you as "Tom 7 Entertainment System" and link to mp3.tom7.org/t7es/ ! Let me know what you think. :) |
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Any idea where I might find the reference to localhost in the code? |
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Ah, my bad. It's been a while since I read your paper that goes along with it. A lot of it's still over my head (10th grade for you), but I now see the part where you mentioned that as a possibility. I'm not too worried about the lack of redundancy since it'll be in a lab. I'll probably be ready with my side of things to try it on Monday. I'll have to write a program to generate all the helper starter files automatically otherwise I'll be repeating it for ages. Thanks for all the help! |
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