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Sony's New Technology Would Adapt Game Difficulty to a Player's Skill Level (hypebeast.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Sony's New Technology Would Adapt Game Difficulty to a Player's Skill Level::Sony's New Technology Would Adapt Game Difficulty to a Player's Skill Level: The company filed a patent for the skill-based algorithm.

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[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 39 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Maybe the article is being vague but stuff like this really doesn't seem like it should be patented. Especially considering I'm pretty sure I've seen this done in games before. The simplest being Mario games giving you invincibility in a level after you die a set amount of times. Or I think A Hat in Time would shorten certain boss battle segments after you completed them already.

The implementation here would need to be really new and impressive to justify this being a patent. And I'm guessing it won't be, assuming they ever actually do something with it.

[–] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There are examples of subtle difficulty shifts too, such as RE4. The game will spawn more/less enemies and change drop rates based on player performance.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

See also, Left 4 Dead's "Director" system. https://left4dead.fandom.com/wiki/The_Director Pretty sute that qualifies as prior art.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I thought Max Payne had adaptive difficulty like two decades ago.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Minecraft gets more difficult over time too, the longer you stay in the same area

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 1 points 11 months ago

And also "will you snail"

[–] pastaPersona@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of some other cool game mechanics that have been patented/copyrighted leading to games as a whole losing out on fantastic ideas. The nemesis system from the Shadow of Mordor games / loading screen minigames come to mind.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

They will have a very difficult time with prior art, especially given there's been literal articles about L4D's dynamic difficulty adjustments to pace the game with the 'director.'

There's a number of games with dynamic difficulty adjustments, so the scope for this to be successfully defended would need to be quite narrow.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Or even more in your face directly from nintendo: in mario kart (like all of them) you get a banana or green shell if you're in 1st and things like blue shells and flying chain chomps if you're in last. The worse you do, the better your items get.

[–] DrPop@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

I thought systems like this already exist in some games? Adaptive difficulty which is a thing most people won't notice. Speedruns of games that implement this system even do actions to counter this for speed and ease of gameplay.

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Looking forward to new speedrun strats of jumping to your death ten times to save 10 seconds killing the final boss.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how this will affect throphies and achievements. Imagine a conversation where one guy says "Man getting this throphy was so hard, I had to fight a boss and his 5 goons that kept healing themselves and I burned through all my powerups and barely made it" and the other guy is like "I only had to fight the boss and 2 goons and they never healed, I didn't even know there were powerups." The first guy is going to be like "YOU WHAT?"

[–] T4UTV1S@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think if this is implemented properly, both players should be acting like the trophy was a challenge to get, even rating it the same difficulty.

I'm imagining in game like Hollow Knight, boss fights have movesets, and given your internal difficulty score', harder/more varied movesets can be used.

It would be beneficial for people who don't have much experience with platformers/fighting games, and gives experienced players a challenge.

[–] SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

"New"