Black & White from Lionhead Studios released originally back in 2001 went on to great reviews, and won various awards. Sadly, it's one game that has also been lost to time but the openblack project plans to revive it with open source.
  • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I always felt this game was begging for a VR remake.

    I’m surprised that it didn’t become one of the first.

  • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I wonder how they will translate over the AI from the original. That was a huge part of that game, so much so that I would say Black and White with a different AI isn’t the same game.

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Demis Hassabis is a genius in the field of artificial intelligence, but the AI of Black & White is 20+ years old and runs on pretty limited hardware (by today’s standards).

      • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Sure, you could probably write an awesome new AI for black and white but you could also write an awesome 3d renderer for the original Mario World.

        My point was that the AI is really core to the game, and I am not sure how they would replicate it in an accurate manner. If you wrote a new AI it would be a different game.

        • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          What I meant was that it will not be that hard to replicate. It might feel complicated and deep but most likely isn’t that complex. Sure - without analyzing the original source code (which isn’t legally available as far as I know) - it might be impossible to recreate the exact behavior, but it should be possible to mimic the behavior - it might just take a few attempts to fine tune the input parameters.

  • itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve got a copy of this somewhere. It could be in my closet…or Vermont. I should find it and yeet some villagers into the ocean again.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Oh hey I was recently cleaning out stuff and threw this out. It was from some multi-game bundle box. My current computer doesn’t even have a drive heh

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      maybe i’m just a dork but that’s why we’ve got an old usb 3.5 disk drive and shit. I’m not losing all that old media if I can help it.

  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    What I wouldn’t get for another proper entry in this series. Game came out like 20 years too soon. We have proper VR now!