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Crossroads of the Multiverse

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:15 am
by Garth's Equipment Shop
Noun 1. crossroads - a community of people smaller than a village
  • a. A place where two or more roads meet.

    b. A small, usually rural community situated at an intersection of two or more roads: asked for directions at a remote crossroads.

    c. A place that is centrally located.
2. crossroads - a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
There are no rules, you can post anything you like here. It's more of a general chat area. You can of course use it to show off something your working on or finished as well. It doesn't necessarily have to be ACK related.

Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:17 am
by Admiral Ackguh
I'll just wish everyone a merry Christmas and happy holidays.

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:12 pm
by joebonk
Merry Christmas to You and to everyone as well.

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:23 pm
by Garth's Equipment Shop
Merry Christmas and God bless everyone! My Christmas wish is for 2014 to be the year that long awaited WIPs finally see completion and inspire many new adventures throughout the year!

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 8:46 pm
by ishtenos
Merry Christmas, everyone!

Agreed, it would be awesome to see some WIPs reach the finish line!

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:20 pm
by Admiral Ackguh
I just wanted to have the first post of the new year.

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:12 am
by Garth's Equipment Shop
2nd! :D

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:59 am
by Garth's Equipment Shop
Completely revised the intro post. Check it out.

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:44 am
by Garth's Equipment Shop
Hi all. How you been?

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:35 pm
by Garth's Equipment Shop
Decided to go with a much shorter simpler intro post so as not to steal anyone's thunder in this thread nor confuse new comers trying to get their bearings here.

I'm working on a concept now for a game contest to encourage everyone to submit a finished game. I'm drawing inspiration primarily from those various game programming challenges out there such as:

Ludum Dare in which programmers agree to a certain theme and set out to program a game over the weekend

or...

24 Hour RPG (and at 24hourrpg.com) where contestants race against the clock to develop a full, working, playable role-playing game within a mere 24 hours

I figure if they can do what they do in that short amount of time (which is some pretty amazing stuff I might add), surely us ACK designers could come up with something over a weekend or even 24 hours.

Futurama

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:36 pm
by joebonk
Basic Futurama:
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Now all we need is a futurama step macro

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Warren Spector to Lead System Shock 3 Develo

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:33 pm
by Joe.Bonk
Deus Ex Creator Warren Spector to Lead System Shock 3 Development

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Warren Spector couldn't say no to working on another System Shock.

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:23 pm
by Admiral Ackguh
Here's a real robot that will knock your socks off:

http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/n ... incredible

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:20 pm
by Garth's Equipment Shop
Holy shit! That's some serious AI. To make all those decision changes on the fly. Course or path-finding corrections including it's own position or angle to stay lined up with an object. The coordination to maneuver unpredictable terrain and adjust to keep from losing balance, and even the ability to pick itself back up from a fall. Imagine such AI being applied to language parsing and conversation decision trees! Perhaps it could navigate messy or complex conversations the same way it does random terrain and unexpected interruptions of it's programmed tasks.

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 10:51 pm
by Joe.Bonk
Garth's Equipment Shop wrote:...Imagine such AI being applied to language parsing and conversation decision trees! Perhaps it could navigate messy or complex conversations the same way it does random terrain and unexpected interruptions of it's programmed tasks.
This Robot Says She Wants To Destroy All Humans
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000502094

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:53 pm
by ishtenos
Joe.Bonk wrote:
Garth's Equipment Shop wrote:...Imagine such AI being applied to language parsing and conversation decision trees! Perhaps it could navigate messy or complex conversations the same way it does random terrain and unexpected interruptions of it's programmed tasks.
This Robot Says She Wants To Destroy All Humans
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000502094
So in other words, human-hating AI is not such an unlikely scenario after all...

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:16 pm
by Admiral Ackguh
Someone needs to come up with a Futurama ACK game!

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 2:33 pm
by Joe.Bonk

Too Legit To Quit

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:15 pm
by Equipmentshop Poltergeist
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Concurs

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:18 pm
by SentientBastardSword
Indeed, I concur!
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