New artificial Life project from creator of Norns/Creatures

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Steve Grand, one of (if not the top) world's best cyberneticists, creator of Creatures and winner of a British OBE for that work, is working on his next offspring and trying to raise money for it via KickStart.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1508284443/grandroids-real-artificial-life-on-your-pc

I know this guy and how smart he is. I've kicked in $1K.

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Re: New artificial Life project from creator of Norns/Creatures
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2011, 11:38:49 am »
Thanks Bruce.  I used to know one of the other Creatures creators when I was in college.  Good to see Steve Grand is working on new things.  I know Creatures still has a loyal following,  we do our bit to promote their festival each Autumn.  And to think you can get an OBE from doing this stuff  :o

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Re: New artificial Life project from creator of Norns/Creatures
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2011, 12:58:46 pm »
I put the video and introduction to the project on the home page here and also made a pledge from Ai Dreams.

www.kickstarter.com/profile/939941948
« Last Edit: March 01, 2011, 01:17:24 pm by Freddy »

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Re: New artificial Life project from creator of Norns/Creatures
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2011, 06:38:59 pm »
Found a new article/interview here :

Some of the questions :

Does your new project build upon any of the logistics from Creatures, or are you starting from scratch? Will the final product be a more “advanced” version of your previous games or something else entirely ?

What’s the difference between “artificial life” and “artificial intelligence?”

If a digital life form can learn, adapt, evolve, die and reproduce, at what point is it safe — scientifically speaking — to drop the term “artificial?” Can we ever?

Inside One Man’s Kickstarter Quest to Build True Artificial Life...

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Re: New artificial Life project from creator of Norns/Creatures
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2011, 03:30:35 pm »
Well he did it.

$37,222 raised with still 33 days to go.  Pretty amazing really and seems like a great way to get a project started.

Now I need to figure out something clever to do for a year and maybe the same thing will happen to me.  Lucky heather anyone ?

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Re: New artificial Life project from creator of Norns/Creatures
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2011, 02:45:03 pm »
Funding has passed 50K now.  :o

 


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