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What happens when a Social Game - is run with Bots?
- ansy 15y agoThe stock market?
- liuhenry 15y agoA friend of mine tried to do a statistics project on the algorithm. Made the interesting discovery that the blocks are randomized within 7-piece sets, with the system going through each different tetramino before repeating any one.
- win_ini 15y agoVery interesting! Just curious - How did he scrape the different moves? The 7-piece sets arei nteresting, because I noticed certain patterns emerge when playing against others, but didn't try to identify them.
- bhickey 15y agoI believe that this feature is generally known as 'Grab Bag.' In a Tetris implementation where tetraminos are sampled uniformly, the player is guaranteed to lose. Given a sufficiently long run of Z or S blocks it's impossible to make any lines. Grab Bag eliminates these pathological runs. It also provides an upper bound on the maximum time between see identical blocks at 13 and can make for a better play experience.
- bhickey 15y agoHm. I should clarify. Runs of Z or S don't prevent lines, but they do guarantee that you'll always leave an eye. It is the accumulated eyes that prevent line formation and lead to a loss.
- philh 15y agoThis is how all officially licensed Tetris games are required to generate blocks. http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Generator http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Generator
- IvarTJ 15y agoZwok is a Flash multiplayer shooter that I enjoyed and thought that I was great at until I found that I could play it without an Internet connection.
- michaelcampbell 15y agoI used to play Zwok a lot. Are you saying the opponents are bots, always? If so, some of them are really good (and some, horrible).
- corprew 15y agoThis would be a great science fiction story with the hook that he's a sim of an actual person created to participate in social games
- flannell 15y agoYour comment made me think of the film "The Thirteenth Floor" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
- pavel_lishin 15y agoMade me think of this: http://qntm.org/difference http://qntm.org/difference
- p4bl0 15y agoThanks for the link! It also made me think of that but I couldn't find it back.
- Martijn 15y agoReverse Ender's Game.
- slig 15y agoRelated: If you want to play only with real humans, try Block Battle http://blockbattle.net/ http://blockbattle.net/
- pharrington 15y agoIn the first Block Battle thread, someone noted[1] that the individual matches are often just replays of past games. At the higher levels (around 20+) you can actually randomly play against the AI, but this is at least a little more honest, as its name is A.I., and it goes very fast. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389740 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389740
- win_ini 15y agoNote: A friend just pointed out the explanation for this behaviour on Tetris Battle's help area which is helpful to understand what may have happened: All of the games with a Facebook name and profile picture are real game plays from the actual player. If the server is unable to find a player, then the title AI will appear on the opponent’s name to tell you that it is an AI bot playing against you. I should note - that in my screen shot, there is no indication of it being a replay though.