Thousands Play a Single-player Game Simultaneously
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#2.... I was hoping this would be about the olympics ;)
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#3There's a subreddit for discussing the stream: http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon
Of particular note is the live updates and google doc for current party status. Make it way easier to check in on progress than watching the stream itself.
(Praise Helix)
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#4There 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 every frame, or is the emulator smart enough to let the old command "finish" before issuing a new one?
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#5There 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 don't know the timeframe).
to switch from one mode to the other 75% of votes are required in some timespan
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#6There 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…
For the first couple of days (and, it seems, right now) every command from the chat was sent to the emulator without discrimination (with the exception of 'start', the menu button, which was being spammed by griefers to halt progress) but the game, not the emulator, ignores commands at certain times. For instance, when the player sprite is moving from one tile to another, input is ignored.
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#7When I read the title, I thought they were writing about Flapmmo [1]!
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#8There 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…
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.
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#9Apparently they discarded their charizard (their starting monster, which is generally the most powerful one throughout the game) pretty early on, and it went downhill from there.
Most amusing. Reddit in general seems to be extracting an enormous amount of fun from this. Makes me wish I was 12 again. Sort of.
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#10There is an interesting development. A five-second rule caused a riot (in the Twitch chat and in the game). So the developer decided to add a system that people can vote whether they want to pass commands directly to the emulator (anarchy) or allow the system to select the next most popular command. Now they can select an appropriate strategy based on a situation at hand.