{"id":3781,"date":"2009-06-26T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:41:22","slug":"experienced-points-nintendos-ungaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Nintendo’s Ungaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is my take on the “demo mode” thing Nintendo is crowing about<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some additional thoughts, which I cut from the article:<\/p>\n

Demo mode is even worse than it seems at first glance. If I understand the patent, it’s actually pre-recorded video<\/em>, not captured or (better yet) AI directed inputs. They make it sound like you can turn demo mode on and off at will, but the way it reads, it sounds like turning it off just sends you back to some pre-determined checkpoint. So what they are really bragging about is the ability to (basically) watch YouTube videos and play from someone else’s save games. This is even less useful than a simple automated self-play mode. And finally, I don’t see how this system will be useful in non-linear games. In Zelda for example: If I use this feature to skip a tricky boss fight, what it’s really going to do is show me a video of someone else beating the boss, and then download a preset save game starting from just after the boss fight. Is that save game going to retain all of the other state variables? (Hearts, resources collected, etc.) <\/p>\n

Well, it’s bad, but at least the other console companies aren’t bending over backwards trying to emulate Nintendo. Man, then we’d really<\/em> be in trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is my take on the “demo mode” thing Nintendo is crowing about. Some additional thoughts, which I cut from the article: Demo mode is even worse than it seems at first glance. If I understand the patent, it’s actually pre-recorded video, not captured or (better yet) AI directed inputs. They make it sound like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}