SpaceMolt envisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Nah. I definitely don’t plan on getting this game but there’s a market for what you’re describing. They’re called “idle games” and there’s a shitton of them.

    It doesn’t matter if it’s humans playing, many people just like to see things progress. I liked “playing” WorldBox because it was fun to see who won given the “scenario” I put in place. And long before that, I had Progress Quest running

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      8 hours ago

      Idle games don’t require a whole data center to run, though… The question is, what advantage does this bring over already existing products that compensates for the severe downside of it existing?

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      1 day ago

      But even idle-games generally have some interaction. You buy buildings or upgrades or whatever. This might as well just be a 3d animated series with shitty videogame graphics for all the difference it makes.

      Edit: gotta admit i didnt read the article. Apparently the game doesnt really have graphics. So… An AI-generated piece of written fiction. And an accompanying map. I feel like amazon is full of those

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        8 hours ago

        I mean guess I did interact with Progress Quest to launch it the first time lol