The Restaurant Game - Games

[url]http://www.theRestaurantGame.net/[/url] [quote][I]The Restaurant Game[/I] is a research project at the [URL="http://www.media.mit.edu/"]MIT Media Lab[/URL] that will algorithmically combine the gameplay experiences of thousands of players to create a new game. In a few months, we will apply machine learning algorithms to data collected through the multiplayer [I]Restaurant Game[/I], and produce a new single-player game that we will enter into the 2008 [URL="http://www.igf.com/"]Independent Games Festival[/URL]. Everyone who plays [I]The Restaurant Game[/I] will be credited as a Game Designer. It's never been easier to earn Game Designer credentials! All contributions are not equal, however. [B]Designers will be ranked based on how well they play their assigned roles, and accomplish their objectives.[/B] There will be only one Lead Designer. Remaining credits will be divided into Game Designers and Assistant Game Designers, and within each category individuals will be ranked according to the [I]quality[/I] of their performance(s). Quality will be determined computationally, based on a number of factors. [I]The Restaurant Game[/I] takes about 10 minutes to play. It is a two-player game that will automatically find partners for players once you join a server. You are welcome encouraged to play multiple times. In order for this project to be at all successful, we will need to collect [I]a lot[/I] of data -- data from over [B]10,000[/B] gameplay sessions. [B]Play early, play often, and please spread the word![/B] This project attempts to address two frustrations I experienced as a professional game developer. 1) Convincing human social behavior is difficult to model with existing hand crafted AI systems. 2) Play testing by people outside of the development team typically comes too late to have a major impact on the final product. This experiment aims to generate AI behaviors that conform to the way players actually choose to interact with other characters and the environment; behaviors that are convincingly human because they capture the nuances of real human behavior and language. [/quote][IMG]http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Ejorkin/restaurant/customer_waitress_small.jpg[/IMG] [URL="http://youtube.com/watch?v=zf7dj2m-SU8"] The Restaurant Game in action.[/URL] tl;dr: Someone plays as a waitress and someone plays as a customer. Hilarity ensues. There is nobody on the servers right now. WE NEED MORE PEOPLE.

So what was the game they eventually submitted? Also, the waiter always gave me the wrong stuff, like a blender when I order salad.

Every time I played with someone, they stole the register when I was ordering the food

[QUOTE=Rubs10;19966724]So what was the game they eventually submitted?[/QUOTE] It hasn't happened, they haven't reached their goal or something. Or they might have submitted something, but nobody cares.

There is actually a whole world past the boundaries, :iiam:

I read some things about this and it seemed like it had some incredible comedic possibilites.

if people still played it.

I wish there was more customers :(

Does anyone else notice that everything looks like Sims 2 things?

[QUOTE=DemonDog;19985229]Does anyone else notice that everything looks like Sims 2 things?[/QUOTE] because it is.

need more people to play it Lol just met demondog

This is lame.

[QUOTE=dewd11;19985362]need more people to play it Lol just met demondog[/QUOTE] I loved our towers. Oh, the things you can stack.

I was sick a while back and played with a Facepuncher. I told him this and asked for a small meal. He gave me the garbage can.

I'm in a game, waiting.. I remember once I was completely serious, gave them their order and everything perfectly, was respectful and all. Then I gave him a bill charging him for six lobsters and a beer when all he ordered was water and a steak. He asked for a new bill and I charged him for six beers and a lobster. Much fun was had.

Quick I'm waiting, someone join. [editline]12:32AM[/editline] Join Restaurant 101

You're a terrible waiter, three beers? It's 9AM, it's happy hour.

Go to McDonald's where you belong with your stinking outfit!

Okay, so I go in and sit down. I order three beers before I get cut off. Of course he's a dickhead about it so I get up while he goes to get the bill and down a bottle of wine before ordering and chugging six beers before he yells at me. I proceed to threaten suicide and then I steal the microwave and run home to my trailer.

So, who did I give AIDs to?

when i did it, i was raped by the customer, and then he gave me aids and left laughing. [editline]11:01PM[/editline] [QUOTE=JerryK;19990314]So, who did I give AIDs to?[/QUOTE] you bastard.

And you deserved it all.

Ah, I remember the old thread about it. I wonder if the modding attempts succeeded.

My customer didnt sit down and unfortunatly was not in the mood for cat. On the plus side if you sit on the Flowers that they are holding then they give it back to you. You levitate WAYYYY high up in the sky.