The patent called “STATE MANAGEMENT FOR VIDEO GAME HELP SESSIONS” describes multiple examples where a pop-up might ask a player to let a helper take over the gameplay for a while.
Imagine if a user were struggling to find a rare gem in an RPG; if allowed, the helper would take control from the player. They would proceed to chat and guide the user through the process of acquiring the gem.
Tbh I wouldn’t mind this, I hate boss fights in games, I would definitely let the AI do those, and switch back to me for the stuff I enjoy :D
Edit: Though as another commenter said below, a skip button would achieve the same, no need for an LLM if that’s what they mean by “AI”.
I mean… Use the developers console or a cheat if you’re stuck with something and want to continue playing, or just quit the game. There’s no need for an AI to do this.
I do wish that more games still had cheats. It does feel a bit like a lot of newer games have foregone them entirely. You can’t type plane into GTA V, and have a plane materialise, like you could in Vice City, for example.
You’d need to mod it in.
I’m not a gamer, but besides getting stuck at one point of an otherwise great game, I read that people were paying gamers in other countries to play as them and “power up” their characters. If that’s true, it could conceivably be a “job” for AI.
On the other hand, how do people buy games that are so frustrating that you actively pay money to someone (person or AI) to play them for you? It goes completely against my idea of what a game represents.
It’s just p2w with extra steps. Pay to get stronger, or pay someone to play for you to get stronger. When games are designed to either make you play a lot or pay to get stuff to make you stronger, some people will gladly pay to either feel powerful, or just skip enough of the grind that they can focus on what’s fun.
I kind of get it, but at the point where I’d be spending hundreds or make someone play for me, I’d just look for a different game.
Microcheaters
So when everyone speaks about a game and it’s scenes, you will be “the what?”.
If it hallucinates and is wrong and wastes my time, I get compensation, correct?
Cheater mode
How would the assistant “proceed to chat and guide the user through the process of acquiring the gem”, if it already took “control from the player”? 🤔
A STRANGE GAME.THE ONLY WINNING MOVE ISNOT TO PLAY.Ain’t this just botting?
Feed it Ski Free.
That stupid jumpy bear can gargle my balls.
Prior art: I remember a long time ago seeing a video of a Barney (as in purple dinosaur) video game for little kids that would just start playing itself if you didn’t touch the controller for a while. It was a side scroller, probably NES/SNES/Genesis.
This sounds like the ironically good version of the Nemesis System patent - no AI helpers in non-Microslop games for the next 20 years.
Eh… Folks used to pay people to level up their characters in WoW…
That’s what I was thinking this would be used for. Leveling MMO characters, or grinding gold.
Swordsman had an bot where you would let it take control while it farmed an area around where you let it.
Im definately contrarian here. I like games but some aspects a hate. I would totally give over to a helper for platforming and all sorts of stuff I hate. Heck I like things like the ff12 gambit system. I love rpgs because I like to setup and build and see how it goes.
I would just choose to play games that aren’t mostly things I hate 🤷♂️
I guess it could be used to get through forced stealth segments in games with absolute dogshit stealth mechanics, but I would rather just see developers not put forced stealth levels in their game that wasn’t built to do stealth mechanics well.
its not most but like elden ring had platforming I would 100% allow the agent to go do. Lets me clear I have watched people do it without editng out their save scumming and these are the people good at it and it took a few tries. Again the game is not mostly that. but that is in it and games like to throw like that particular thing I hate pretty often.
The first jump that the DEVS point you toward in that one platforming area is so fucked. The only jump worse is the one in DS3 to get the Firekeeper Set. The geometry in both instances is hella fucked. 😩
