Comments on: Emergent behavior and why game devs should care about it

By: Juuso

Juuso — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:27:46 +0000

I wasn’t talking in billions of neurons scale.

But… I’m not sure what behavior that was, since later I re-thought that what happened was probably:
- daughter is asked to tell what a picture of a car represents
- she knows it’s a car
- but she doesn’t know how to say word car (“auto”, it has nasty T)
- it’s easier to say “brrrrmm”, so she uses that word.

Earlier we have asked (without a car picture), “what kind of sound car makes” and she replies brrrrm. So, when we point our finger to a picture of a car and ask what that is… it’s different question, but she successfully combines these two.

And of course as a parent I’m more than willing to fetch a baseball bat from the garage in case somebody wants to argue about things that my daughter does 8)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:34:14 +0000

What happened with your daughter isn’t really emergent behaviour. Maybe, if you are talking in terms of the billions of simple neurons that interacted to produce that complicated behaviour. That’s emergent behaviour. The combination of the two words, and the mistake that the car was ‘vroom’, wasn’t emergent behaviour.

Anyway, enough trolling for now. You finished off with the basic concept…

By: Scott Tykoski

Scott Tykoski — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:47:03 +0000

This sounds similar one of Sid Myers design rules…basically “Complex systems on their own are daunting. Have Simple Systems interact to create accessible and interesting Complexity/Depth.”

By: eclectocrat

eclectocrat — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:43:09 +0000

Hey,

There was a conversation at TIGSource about this just the other day.

By: Sargon

Sargon — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:28:54 +0000

Nice.