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Re: Infinite Craft

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Post by crazygringo »

I wish this were an actual game!

Like keep showing me a desired item to craft, that requires crafting 2 or 3 items to get to -- e.g. combine 2 existing things, then with a third existing thing. Or combine 2 existing things, another 2 existing things, and then combine those.

And obviously it keeps getting more complex the more items I acquire along the way.

And each time I play it's randomized.

(And let me play entirely with the keyboard by autocompleting each item as I type... dragging gets old real quick on a touchpad...)

Re: Infinite Craft

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Post by Animats »

Restaurant + Empire -> McDonalds

Resort + Empire -> Disney

Obesity + Empire -> America

America + China -> War

China + Japan -> War

America + Japan -> Anime

America + Junk -> Trump

Re: Infinite Craft

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Post by wyre »

crazygringo wrote: post #281

I wish this were an actual game! Like keep showing me a desired item to craft, that requires crafting 2 or 3 items to get to -- e.g. combine 2 existing things, then with a third existing thing. Or combine 2 existing things, another 2 existing things, and then combine those. And obviously it keeps getting more complex the more items I acquire along the way. And each time I play it's randomized. (And let me play entire…

I remember there being a few phone games with this format. Joining elements together to make other things and using those to make other things.

Quick google search tells me the game is called Little Alchemy (there’s a sequel now too)

Re: Infinite Craft

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Post by hinkley »

tmtvl wrote: post #243
hinkley wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forest + fire = smoke Mud + water = swamp Swamp + plant = Venus Flytrap Okay, okay. Venus Flytrap + Smoke = smoke detector

North America + Fire = Canada. Naturally.

And if you set Canada on fire?

Maple syrup.

Re: Infinite Craft

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Post by wdh505 »

crazygringo wrote: post #281

I wish this were an actual game! Like keep showing me a desired item to craft, that requires crafting 2 or 3 items to get to -- e.g. combine 2 existing things, then with a third existing thing. Or combine 2 existing things, another 2 existing things, and then combine those. And obviously it keeps getting more complex the more items I acquire along the way. And each time I play it's randomized. (And let me play entire…

I played a game like this once, it was called "cow evolution:idle merge game". It wasn't randomized, but skinnerboxxed. Perhaps that is not quite what you meant.

Re: Infinite Craft

#287

Post by SirMaster »

jandrese wrote: post #277
SirMaster wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>As an aside, the game is technically interesting, being a really simple example of using llm generation for game mechanics. But it is not engaging at all and feels nonsensical to me You just gotta make a game out of it. For example challenge yourself to try to craft "pizza". Can even try to do it in as least number of crafts as possible. Point is, just crafting random things to see what it spits out is OK, but tryin…

That's a fairly big challenge since the game gets less coherent the longer it goes on. The early matches generally make sense, but after about 3 levels you start getting loops, and after 5 levels you start getting nonsense or outright failures from queries. If you figure each of the things is an input parameter to a LLM this makes a lot of sense. They tend to have short memories and struggle with higher level introsp…

Hmm, I’m not finding it to be too big of a challenge.

It’s a bit challenging yeah, but me and my friends are challenging each other to get to words and we can usually find a way to make it.

Things like “Godzilla”, “Universe”, “Vampire”, “Optimus Prime”, “Vodka”, etc are just some examples we did.

I don’t seem to be having problems going dozens of levels deep without loops and not running into many query failures. Results that are deep are still making some logical combinational sense to me at least.

Some words we haven’t been able to make, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. It just means we need to get more creative and sometimes think outside the box. There are so many ways you can approach getting to a certain result in my experience so far.

Doing this has been fun and challenging so far for me and my friends FWIW.

Re: Infinite Craft

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Post by itschrisyoko »

iandanforth wrote: post #61

Frankly I want to watch an animation of all the combinations as they are discovered/created over time from their backend. Seeing a growing 'tech tree' from the exploration and imaginations of users would be delightful.

Seeing a list populated of the First Discoveries along with the elements combined to make them would be a lot of fun to see.

Re: Infinite Craft

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Post by vintermann »

hinkley wrote: post #93
madeofpalk wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ahh, neat application of it. Explains the somewhat dubious combinations I was seeing.

Forest + fire = smoke Mud + water = swamp Swamp + plant = Venus Flytrap Okay, okay. Venus Flytrap + Smoke = smoke detector

Bankrupt + Pirate = Captain Jack Sparrow

Bacon + Judaism = No Bacon

Re: Infinite Craft

#290

Post by not_math »

baq wrote: post #87

Bug report: I got to 'Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega Mega' and it can't be combined with anything

It seems to be a limit on the input length of the elements, if they have a larger name then it does not work
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