If you like to watch computer-controlled 2d fighting characters with actual decent AI (most of the time) squaring off against each other, check out <a href="http://www.saltybet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.saltybet.com/</a> .<p>There are over 5000 characters in the database, and it runs 24 hours a day. The matches can get really amusing sometimes.
Background: This is the logical conclusion of Fish Plays Pokemon (<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-exclusive-interview-with-the-fish-playing-pokemon" rel="nofollow">http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-exclusive-interview-with...</a>), which was a hackathon project and a play on Twitch Plays Pokemon.
He needs to randomize the 1P/2P assignment because Aquarius seems to prefer being on the right side of the tank and gets an unfair advantage as 1P.
Stream seems to be down, here's what was on: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHrRksz-XLI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHrRksz-XLI</a>
Soooooo much more engaging than the Fish Plays Pokemon the creator links to. I explained it to a coworker (...in marketing) and couldn't help but giggle at every other sentence in my explanation. "So the fish swim around in that virtual grid, see, and that triggers button presses in the fighting game." Sweet action, as the kids say.
Well given that its Street Fighter my best strategy was to always just mash random buttons.<p>I do wonder if he choose the fish at random or tried to find more active fishies.
Humans are pattern recognition animals, we like to look at anything random and extract meaningful patterns from it.<p>I see this game as a clear example of that, where (random) fish movement is fed to a computer game and translated into game play (pattern). I fail though to conclude anything particularly interesting if one fish won the game :)
What I'd really want to see is two monkeys playing the game against each other for the treat. If given some time, I believe that they can get better than most humans.
I had a dream one time when I was a kid that I trained a puppy to play Street Fighter 2. I'd never imagine it would ever be linked to anything this close to reality.
I was actually hoping for a writeup on the differences between regular fish and fish in SFII, but this is also good.<p>Next we need kittens versus fish. Kittens are much more active.
Url changed from <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/7000-people-are-watching-two-fish-play-play-street-fighter/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/7000-people-are-watching-tw...</a>, which points to <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/20/6048973/fish-vs-fish-street-fighter-twitch" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/20/6048973/fish-vs-fish-stree...</a>, which points to this.
Just gotta say this is a strange outcome of our technological developments.. I mean think of the energy that was spent making this work - it could've been done doing something.. I dunno fucking useful?!<p>It's almost as bad as watching two "grown-ups" play Street Fighter lol.