How are state changes consistently tracked?
They are not, and probably never will be. Looking up at the sky regenerates your surroundings. Inventory is less tricky, you just feed it back as input, but it is so easy to lose the landscape.
Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer
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#12The most fun thing about this demo (and the demo is 100% worth trying out, you'll need to use Chrome for it) is that it shows how there's no persistent memory at all. If you get bored of the area you are in, look straight up at the sky and look down again. If you see something interesting - like a fence post - keep that in your field of vision and you should start to see more similarly interesting things.
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#13A while back "deformable terrain" and walls you could destroy and such was a big buzzword in games. AFAICT, though, it's rarely been used in truly open-ended ways, vs specific "there are things behind some of these walls, or buried under this mound" type of stuff. Generally there are still certain types of environment objects that let you do certain things, and many more that let you do nothing.
Generative AI could be an interesting approach to the issue of solving the "what happens if you destroy [any particular element]" aspect.
For a lot of games you'd probably still want to have specific destinations set in the map; maybe now it's just much more open-ended as far as how you get there (like some of the ascend-through-matter stuff in Tears of the Kingdom, but more open-ended in a "just start trying to dig anywhere" way and you use gen AI to figure out exactly how much dirt/other material will get piled up for digging in a specific place?).
Or for games with more of an emphasis on random drops, or random maps, you could leverage some of the randomness more directly. Could be really cool for a roguelike.
Re: Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer
#14The most fun thing about this demo (and the demo is 100% worth trying out, you'll need to use Chrome for it) is that it shows how there's no persistent memory at all. If you get bored of the area you are in, look straight up at the sky and look down again. If you see something interesting - like a fence post - keep that in your field of vision and you should start to see more similarly interesting things.
This also works in Safari on my iPhone.
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#15The most fun thing about this demo (and the demo is 100% worth trying out, you'll need to use Chrome for it) is that it shows how there's no persistent memory at all. If you get bored of the area you are in, look straight up at the sky and look down again. If you see something interesting - like a fence post - keep that in your field of vision and you should start to see more similarly interesting things.
This gesture would often work for me in lucid dreams-- look away to refresh content. And when I played video games more regularly, my dreams would take on a procedurally generated quality that always struck me as more than the typical abstract dream imagery. It was as if my mind had learned a basic game engine with mechanics, physics and various rendering techniques.
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#18How are state changes consistently tracked?
The context window seems to be about one second long at ca 20 FPS, so you get enough state change to do realistic things like accelerated falling.
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#20A while back "deformable terrain" and walls you could destroy and such was a big buzzword in games. AFAICT, though, it's rarely been used in truly open-ended ways, vs specific "there are things behind some of these walls, or buried under this mound" type of stuff. Generally there are still certain types of environment objects that let you do certain things, and many more that let you do nothing. Generative AI could b…
You can still scale up the Power Game/Noita mindset to larger games, with pretty good results. Teardown is a very fun current-gen title that combines physics and voxels to create a sort of fully physical world to interact with: https://youtu.be/SDfWDB1hGWc
There's still a ways to go, but I don't really think AI will be required if game engine pipelines extend PBR to destruction physics. The biggest bottleneck is frankly the performance hit it would entail, and the dynamic lighting that is inherently required.