Computer Game I Want Made
I have an idea for what I think would be a really neat computer game.
It is a two player game, one Spy and one Sniper.
The setting is a fancy party, random locations, with a large number of computer-controlled people.
The Spy has a set of random goals: talk to X contact, steal X item, plant X bug, etc.
The Sniper has one goal: shoot the spy. He also has only one shot.
The game is a reverse Turing test: can the Sniper pick out the human-controlled Spy in the computer-controlled crowd.
The hard part would be making the Spy controls balanced, so that a careful Spy could mimic an NPC, but give himself away. In particular you'd have to make sure there were no guaranteed tells, things an NPC never did that are hard or impossible for the Spy to avoid.
It is a two player game, one Spy and one Sniper.
The setting is a fancy party, random locations, with a large number of computer-controlled people.
The Spy has a set of random goals: talk to X contact, steal X item, plant X bug, etc.
The Sniper has one goal: shoot the spy. He also has only one shot.
The game is a reverse Turing test: can the Sniper pick out the human-controlled Spy in the computer-controlled crowd.
The hard part would be making the Spy controls balanced, so that a careful Spy could mimic an NPC, but give himself away. In particular you'd have to make sure there were no guaranteed tells, things an NPC never did that are hard or impossible for the Spy to avoid.