planetphillip

PlanetPhillip joined Aug 23, 2004

My age and facts about myself aren't really important. What's important are my beliefs and actions. I believe that gaming is the next evolution of story telling. First we had drawings on cave walls, then oral tales with spoken language. Next came writing that culminated in the printing press. This was followed by still images and onto moving images. Now we have gaming; an interactive media that is only just beginning to realize its potential. My site and contribution is a very, very small part in helping mods become better known. I am interested in telling stories through SP FPS mods. Please visit planetphillip.com for more information.

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Is it possible for players to know if their opponents are human? Could a test be devised to measure a player's humaness?

When I first started playing FPS games I thought I was doing quite good in getting to just over half way on Unreal Tournament's difficulty level.  So I decided to try playing on God mode, obviously the hardest!.  Dumb struck would be a good description of my feelings at the time.  How could anybody play against bots that were that good?  Impossible, I thought.

I later found this thread on BeyondUnreal where Lily had recorded herself, yes it was a female, playing in God mode and beating the bots, quite easily, in fact.
The aim of the videos was to help those less-able players to learn how to beat the bots.   It became clear after watching some of these videos that whilst the bots were fast and accurate, they were also predictable.
So, why do players prefer to play against other humans?  Is it simply to compete with an equal?   I wonder, if the AI of the games were radically improved, whether players would still prefer to play against humans.  I think they would.  Nobody likes to be beaten by a machine and I accept that game AI is a huge subject and can't be fully discussed within the confines of a forum but how would you really know you are playing against another human?
What criteria would you set?  Let's assume that the physical characteristics of movement and information gathering are the same.  Meaning the opponent can't significantly make the game character do anything the human couldn't do and they only know what a human would know  I.E. they can't see through walls.  Also there could be no communication between the players; taunts etc. I also suppose a lot would depend on the gametypes and whether they were part of a team.  For example, imagine you are playing a gametype where you only have one life, if you or your opponent die then it's game over, a completely different approach would need to be taken compared to a regular deathmatch game.
Would it simply come down to predictability?   Have any studies been made of this?  Could we build a Turing Test for gamers?

For more information on the Turing test visit:
Cogsci.ucsd.edu

This blog post was originally posted on PlanetPhillip.com on 16 April 2004.

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Gman-ghost-Brazil
Gman-ghost-Brazil Nov 9 2009, 10:49am says:

Would you add me there, mister?

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D3ads
D3ads Nov 16 2007, 1:38pm says:

Hi, sent you a message about Afraid Of Monsters:DC not long back, did you get it? Now it's released it'd be cool to make a post about it on your site. Also Paranoia and Decay are very close to release too, it's a good Christmas for Half-Life SP fans :)

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Gman-ghost-Brazil
Gman-ghost-Brazil Oct 27 2007, 4:37pm says:

Hey Phillip It's Kerberos here, I comment in your website alot! So, Didnt expected to see ya here!! How ya doin'

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Gman-ghost-Brazil
Gman-ghost-Brazil Nov 9 2009, 10:50am replied:

Damn this comment is old (ya please just press the button so we can become friends now)

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AlteredReality
AlteredReality Oct 17 2007, 4:55am says:

When you put the screenshots of my mod in your site, their captions say it's for Half-Life!
Maybe you got confused because of the "Episode 1" thing, but... it's a Prey mod. ;-)

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XXI
XXI Jun 2 2006, 8:16am says:

hi, i am a author of cancelled ispitatel 3.

just wanne give some information to you

Unfinished Demo Screens:
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Download:
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tnx.

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