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Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata God and Go (2001)

by areoform on 5/24/25, 1:21 AM with 2 comments

  • by anthk on 5/26/25, 6:35 PM

    A lot of emergent gameplay was under MUDs and roguelikes decades before.

    There were urban based ones, too; not just about sorcerers and warriors. As they were mainly text based, they could set tons of properties to in game-objects and their relations, truly advanced for their era.

    And, no, a lot of LLM's aren't even close to what kind of simulation you could get in a MUD. LLM's can fill tons of details, but they can't get a whole coherent world with ease.

  • by spacechild1 on 5/27/25, 8:56 PM

    Thanks for sharing! Very interesting interviews. It turned out to be very relevant for my current research.