Two Things.

[Jintor]

First: Elite Beat Agents is the rockingest game ever created in the history of man. I think.

Second: I was recently reading an interview with Will Wright where he was taking about a project he was on with a friend about... robots. Sort of. The main thing I remember about this was that the main robot sort of had his personality assigned by whoever was viewing him at the time; for instance, if a young child was viewing it, she would view the robot as an innocent or a curious sort of person. The interview, however, fustratingly does not give the title of this project. I was wondering if anybody knew what it was.

Answers appreciated to both points.

(Agents are... GOOOOooOoOoO!!!!!!!)

 

[Beerdude26]

Links or gtfo

 

[Asuka]

Sounds interesting. But ya links plz.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Should mention where you read the interview. Would prove difficult to provide links to your newspaper or magazine article.

 

[Jintor]

Hmm... Elite Beat Agents is one of those 'EXPERIENCE IT!' kinda things. Remake of a kooky Japanese game called "Osu! Takete! Ouendan!!!" for the DS. It's the rockingest most rocking game ever to rock on the rocking DS. It rocks!

Wikipedia Entry.

Official Site.

"Graphical FAQ"

T3h Will Wright Interview is here: <----

/EDIT Except from the specific part:

CP: Tell me about the film projects.

WW: Well, we have two projects. The one we’re doing now is being done with little miniatures. It’s an artificial intelligence story set in feudal Japan. It’s about this robot that was invented by this blacksmith, entirely mechanical, no electronics.

CP: How big is it?

WW: Well, the puppets themselves are about eight inches tall. We’ve actually built this entire Japanese village at that scale. And that’s our set. It’s kind of miniatures but it’s supposed to be full scale. And the robot is, roughly, a little bigger than a person. But it’s all about the way people relate to this machine, the way they project themselves into it. The robot is entirely neutral… behaviorally. Entirely predictable, entirely deterministic, entirely neutral. Kind of a Being There type of thing (referring to the Jerzy Kozinski novel that was made into a film starring Peter Sellers.) But everybody that comes up to the robot interprets the robot’s actions based on their personality. So if they’re curious, then they think "Oh, I see he’s curious." And so the robot’s kind of a personality mirror, and that’s what the whole thing is about.

CP: Is this a feature?

WW: Actually, we’re thinking about it in terms of television right now. But we’re just going to see. It’s kind of just more for us to learn techniques and all that.