All this can turn into a completely new genre of games: turn-based single-player MMOs. The potential is rather interesting.
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#12There are ideas that I see and say to myself "why didn't I think of doing that?" This is one of them. Any of us could have made this in the past several years but no one did so. It's fascinating how the community must have to work to protect themselves from griefers. It only takes a few commands to release a pokemon (which happened a few days ago). What's the threshold on parsing commands? Does it send a new command…
"anarchy" mode is, if i understand correctly, in such a way that all commands are passed to the emulator. Then, simulating a real game boy, most of them are discarded (think about pressing left-up-right-down in a gameboy, with a delay of a few milliseconds.. only left would be registered and the other ignored). democracy seems to be a system in which everyone votes and the command which is more popular is executed (i…
Mandatory reading for non-believers.
Anarchy/Democracy Explained!: http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y8o60/a...
I love this comment: People are going to write dissertations on this. http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y6drw/l...
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#13The main character of Pokemon, the game, is named "Red".
"Ash" is the name of the main character from the anime. I know they're supposed to be the same guy, but serious hardcore players distinguish the two.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
"anarchy" mode is, if i understand correctly, in such a way that all commands are passed to the emulator. Then, simulating a real game boy, most of them are discarded (think about pressing left-up-right-down in a gameboy, with a delay of a few milliseconds.. only left would be registered and the other ignored). democracy seems to be a system in which everyone votes and the command which is more popular is executed (i…
Yeah, for anarchy mode to truly work, it would be better to give 1 second or so delays between each queued command. It seems pointless to have it send them all at once, or only a few ms apart. As for democracy mode, it seems to be sending a command once the top command receives 100+ votes.
The german newspaper Spiegel Online claims that the democracy mode waits for 5s to choose the most popular command.
(http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/twitch-plays-pokemon-ze... , in German)
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#15People are really upset about the switch to a vote based input system.
I can sort of understand why. Progress now feels inevitable rather than miraculous. There was places and menus where it is quite possible to dismiss all your pokemon permanently, or use up all the currency in the game and not be able to earn more. So the tension was quite high! Can we really risk going into a building that would let us get rid of all the pokemon?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
"anarchy" mode is, if i understand correctly, in such a way that all commands are passed to the emulator. Then, simulating a real game boy, most of them are discarded (think about pressing left-up-right-down in a gameboy, with a delay of a few milliseconds.. only left would be registered and the other ignored). democracy seems to be a system in which everyone votes and the command which is more popular is executed (i…
Yeah, for anarchy mode to truly work, it would be better to give 1 second or so delays between each queued command. It seems pointless to have it send them all at once, or only a few ms apart. As for democracy mode, it seems to be sending a command once the top command receives 100+ votes.
There is a huge lag on the stream, around 20-30 seconds meaning if you send a command you are controlling the game 30 seconds later.
When democracy is in effect it takes votes for a time period(5-10 seconds?) and then chooses an action.
http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y8o60/a...
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#17There are ideas that I see and say to myself "why didn't I think of doing that?" This is one of them. Any of us could have made this in the past several years but no one did so. It's fascinating how the community must have to work to protect themselves from griefers. It only takes a few commands to release a pokemon (which happened a few days ago). What's the threshold on parsing commands? Does it send a new command…
Loren Carpenter did pretty much this back in 1991, using an audience and Pong.
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#18The main character of Pokemon, the game, is named "Red". "Ash" is the name of the main character from the anime. I know they're supposed to be the same guy, but serious hardcore players distinguish the two.
Actually, its not "hardcore players" who distinguish them. they are actually are separate characters. Red is the protagonist in the game/manga. Ash only exists in the anime, which is not always parallel to the game/manga.
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#19It's a crowd-sourced fuzzer for Pokemon Red!