Thousands of People Trying to Play the Same Game of Pokemon

http://www.dorkly.com/article/59332/there-are-thousands-of-people-trying-to-play-the-same-game-of-pokemon

by jtchang • 12 years ago

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jtchang2• 12 years ago

Would be good with some type of voting algorithm and a clock so only one command per few seconds.

naiyt3• 12 years ago

Well, I think the chat is set in slow mode, so you can only send a command once every 30 seconds.

I tried to implement a voting algorithm on the Dark Souls stream I did today, but I didn't have enough people for it to work. The idea was to have up to 10 actions queued at any given time, and requiring each action to have been voted on N number of times before it is queued. Eventually I just removed the voting and let people control directly, since it was going to slow with the 50-100 or so people we had.

ufo• 12 years ago

The system already ignores most of the commands due to how the game works. Essentially, it picks a move at random every frames or so. And if you look at the live stats of the voting, you can see that the people tend to vote in a single direction at a time already: https://sheltered-reef-4687.herokuapp.com/

I think that the long stream delay is a bigger problem then the randomness. People tend to vote according to what the stream is currently showing but the votes will actually be counted 20 to 40 seconds in the future.

JimmaDaRustla• 12 years ago

This would change it completely - rather to use the spam chat, just aggregate the data from the last performed command, maybe half to 1 second delay, then poll the commands for 1s or something and perform the highest voted action.

It'd be nice to have a little green/red indicator when commands are being accepted.

ijk2• 12 years ago

Someone has already set up a game of Tetris using the command inputs from the Pokemon stream: http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_

jtchang2• 12 years ago

Kinda fun to watch on a sunday morning.

thehodge2• 12 years ago

That's great but they need to disable start like the normal feed

seivan3• 12 years ago

Why not yellow? It would be cool to see which of the start pokemon was most used.

richforrester2• 12 years ago

Read the article. They're playing the same game. Eg, just one game, being controlled by bunches of people. One choice. Once.

And if I'm right (never played Yellow), you're not allowed to pick a starting Pokemon in Yellow. I believe Picachu is the only option.

oinksoft• 12 years ago

In Yellow though you get all three starting pokemon pretty early, I assumed that's what he meant.

seivan3• 12 years ago

Why is the assumption I didn't read the article? What's even more curious is that not only do you start with the assumption that I did not read the article, you also go ahead and question yourself wether or not you fully understood me.

Which is funny, because you STARTED with questioning if I had read the article.

Regardless - you get all the starters in Yellow + Pikachu. And assuming things aren't fully random, I wanted to see what the hive mind wanted to go with.

crystalmace• 12 years ago

I submitted a link to the twitch yesterdy. One of the comments links to a google doc with current progress recorded. There's also been a program made in C# that analyzes the stream to draw a map of Red's movements. All in all, it is a pretty cool community project right now!

thehodge2• 12 years ago

Do you have that link?

Rhapso• 12 years ago

This might make an interesting stress testing technique. Let 40k people mash all the buttons at once.

naiyt3• 12 years ago

I setup something similar to this today, but for Dark Souls instead. (Pokemon to Dark Souls -- that escalated quickly.)

It was actually pretty fun, but the Twitch delay made it difficult. We managed to kill a bunch of enemies and slowly make our way up various staircases, but the cliffs always got the best of us.

ijk2• 12 years ago

Have a link or a video?

naiyt3• 12 years ago

http://www.twitch.tv/naiyte

There should be some vods on the channel, I think...but it's not that fun to watch, since it's about 5 hours with long stretches of nothing happening when people got bored. We had about 50-100 people in chat at most times.

I may do it again in the future, but I'm considering looking into a streaming service with a shorter stream delay.

flexd• 12 years ago

That reminds me I still have not finished Dark Souls, thanks!

That game is so hard sometimes, and I love it! It's more fun when you play with others, because if you are alone it's easy to get frustrated at not being able to do something or not knowing where to go.

topac• 12 years ago

https://github.com/topac/twitch-plays-pokemon-keypad

Thousands of People Trying to Play the Same Game of Pokemon

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