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A game that evolves as determined by its initial state, requiring no further input from humans is considered a zero-player game.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Segovia-Aguas |first1=Javier |title=Synthesis of Procedural Models for Deterministic Transition Systems |date=2023-09-28 |work=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications |editor-last=Gal |editor-first=Kobi |url=https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/FAIA230502 |access-date=2024-11-20 |publisher=IOS Press |doi=10.3233/faia230502 |isbn=978-1-64368-436-9 |last2=Ferrer-Mestres |first2=Jonathan |last3=Jiménez |first3=Sergio |editor2-last=Nowé |editor2-first=Ann |editor3-last=Nalepa |editor3-first=Grzegorz J. |editor4-last=Fairstein |editor4-first=Roy}}</ref> |
A game that evolves as determined by its initial state, requiring no further input from humans is considered a zero-player game.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Segovia-Aguas |first1=Javier |title=Synthesis of Procedural Models for Deterministic Transition Systems |date=2023-09-28 |work=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications |editor-last=Gal |editor-first=Kobi |url=https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/FAIA230502 |access-date=2024-11-20 |publisher=IOS Press |doi=10.3233/faia230502 |isbn=978-1-64368-436-9 |last2=Ferrer-Mestres |first2=Jonathan |last3=Jiménez |first3=Sergio |editor2-last=Nowé |editor2-first=Ann |editor3-last=Nalepa |editor3-first=Grzegorz J. |editor4-last=Fairstein |editor4-first=Roy|arxiv=2307.14368 }}</ref> |
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[[Cellular automaton]] games that are determined by initial conditions including [[Conway's Game of Life]] are examples of this.<ref>{{citation|author=Martin Gardner|title=Mathematical games: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game 'Life'|date=October 1970|url=http://www.stanford.edu/class/sts145/Library/life.pdf|journal=Scientific American}}</ref>''<ref>{{citation|author1=Ljiljana Petruševski|title=Self-Replicating Systems in Spatial Form Generation – The Concept of Cellular Automata|url=https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1450-569X/2009/1450-569X0919008P.pdf|author2=Mirjana Devetaković|author3=Bojan Mitrović}}</ref>'' |
[[Cellular automaton]] games that are determined by initial conditions including [[Conway's Game of Life]] are examples of this.<ref>{{citation|author=Martin Gardner|title=Mathematical games: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game 'Life'|date=October 1970|url=http://www.stanford.edu/class/sts145/Library/life.pdf|journal=Scientific American}}</ref>''<ref>{{citation|author1=Ljiljana Petruševski|title=Self-Replicating Systems in Spatial Form Generation – The Concept of Cellular Automata|url=https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1450-569X/2009/1450-569X0919008P.pdf|author2=Mirjana Devetaković|author3=Bojan Mitrović}}</ref>'' |
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Latest revision as of 03:44, 2 December 2024
A zero-player game or no-player game is a simulation game that has no sentient players.[1]
Types
[edit]There are various different types of games that can be considered "zero-player".[2]
Determined by initial state
[edit]A game that evolves as determined by its initial state, requiring no further input from humans is considered a zero-player game.[3]
Cellular automaton games that are determined by initial conditions including Conway's Game of Life are examples of this.[4][5]
Progress Quest is another example, in the game the player sets up an artificial character, and afterwards the game plays itself with no further input from the player.[6] Godville is a similar game that took inspiration from Progress Quest.[7] In the game, the player is a god that can communicate with a non-player character hero.[8] However, the game can progress with no interaction from the player.[9]
Incremental games, sometimes called idle games or clicker games, are games which do require some player intervention near the beginning however may be zero-player at higher levels.[10] As an example, Cookie Clicker requires that players click cookies manually before purchasing assets to click cookies in the place of the player independently.[11]
AI vs AI games
[edit]In computer games, the term refers to programs that use artificial intelligence rather than human players,[12] for example some fighting and real-time strategy games can be put into zero-player mode where multiple AIs can play against each other. Humans may have a challenge in designing the AI and giving it sufficient skill to play the game well, but the actual evolution of the game has no human intervention.[13]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mukund, Madhavan (2021-05-01). "The Winning Ways of John Conway". Resonance. 26 (5): 603–614. doi:10.1007/s12045-021-1164-6. ISSN 0973-712X.
- ^ Björk, Staffan; Juul, Jesper (2012). "Zero-Player Games. Or: What We Talk about When We Talk about Players". The Philosophy of Computer Games Conference.
- ^ Segovia-Aguas, Javier; Ferrer-Mestres, Jonathan; Jiménez, Sergio (2023-09-28), Gal, Kobi; Nowé, Ann; Nalepa, Grzegorz J.; Fairstein, Roy (eds.), "Synthesis of Procedural Models for Deterministic Transition Systems", Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, arXiv:2307.14368, doi:10.3233/faia230502, ISBN 978-1-64368-436-9, retrieved 2024-11-20
- ^ Martin Gardner (October 1970), "Mathematical games: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game 'Life'" (PDF), Scientific American
- ^ Ljiljana Petruševski; Mirjana Devetaković; Bojan Mitrović, Self-Replicating Systems in Spatial Form Generation – The Concept of Cellular Automata (PDF)
- ^ Fizek, Sonia (2018-06-18). "Interpassivity and the Joy of Delegated Play in Idle Games". Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association. 3 (3). doi:10.26503/todigra.v3i3.81. ISSN 2328-9422.
- ^ Ogneviuk, Viktor; Maletska, Mariia; Vinnikova, Natalia; Zavadskyi, Vitaliy (2022). "Videogame as Means of Communication and Education: Philosophical Analysis". Wisdom. 1 (21): 101–116. doi:10.24234/wisdom.v2/11.626 (inactive 2024-11-24).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - ^ Tavares, Rogério; Ferreira, Cátia (2013). Ferreira, Cátia; Tavares, Roger (eds.). Jogar, jogo e sociedade = Play, game and society (in Portuguese). CECC - Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura. doi:10.13140/rg.2.1.3797.1604. ISBN 978-989-98248-0-5.
- ^ Alharthi, Sultan A.; Alsaedi, Olaa; Toups Dugas, Phoebe O.; Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean; Hammer, Jessica (2018-04-21). "Playing to Wait: A Taxonomy of Idle Games". Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–15. doi:10.1145/3173574.3174195. ISBN 978-1-4503-5620-6.
- ^ Madge, Christopher; Bartle, Richard; Chamberlain, Jon; Kruschwitz, Udo; Poesio, Massimo (2019-10-17). "Incremental Game Mechanics Applied to Text Annotation". Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 545–558. doi:10.1145/3311350.3347184. ISBN 978-1-4503-6688-5.
- ^ Deterding, Sebastian (2020-12-31), Payne, Matthew Thomas; Huntemann, Nina B. (eds.), "24. Cookie Clicker: Gamification", How to Play Video Games, New York University Press, pp. 200–207, doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479830404.003.0028, ISBN 978-1-4798-3040-4, retrieved 2024-11-20
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society", Rodney P. Carlisle, SAGE Publications.
- ^ Summerley, Rory; McDonald, Brian (2024-03-27). "Perceived Foolishness: How Does the Saltybet Community Construct AI vs AI Spectatorship?". Games and Culture. doi:10.1177/15554120241238262. ISSN 1555-4120.