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and steel series hey guys this is a game I knew about before I got to packs and
wasn't sure that they were going to be here but once I luckily walked P across
their Booth I had to check it out this is cloudberry Kingdom in all of its
insanity this game is known for the incredible amounts of difficulty and I
was wondering what else you could add to this picture uh well it's randomly
generated 2D platformer so every time you play a level it's completely brand
new you'll never see it again unless you choose to save it which another story um
really so it's just an awesome platformer with infinite levels so
infinite replayability you can never get bard of it that's a really good way of
saying it randomly randomly generated levels in a platformer is a really
interesting idea but I think you guys pulled it off pretty well now the thing
I brought up earlier about difficulty can you expand more on that how you can
push it to the Limit sure uh we spent about 2 years creating an AI That's able
to design these levels and through throughout the process we realize that
we can really crank this up so what's
great about our AI it's flexibility I mean you can create some of the easiest
levels you've seen in your life I mean you know like a 5-year-old can play it
versus you know you can crank it up to like some super I don't know like if
Bruce Lee was a gamer he could do it you know something I mean so it's really
flexible in terms of what it can do and it can be the easiest thing you've ever
seen or the hardest thing you've ever seen that's awesome because when you can
crank up the ability to the ability not that then when you can H up the
difficulty to that level you can get some pretty awesome playthroughs I've
already seen some videos recorded on YouTube of people beating certain levels
and it's just nuts it's fun to see that
um with this amount of AI building levels I I already know the answer to
this but is it possible for them to make one that's actually impossible it is
possible to make it impossible but when that happens the computer automatically
deletes the level every level that you will actually experience within the game
is provable by the computer and if you don't believe it you actually you can
buy a power up in the game it's five coins whatever it is and you can just
watch the computer run through the level for you just as proof there you go so if
you're getting really pissed off because you can't beat a level it is your fault
it is not the game's fault how do you get these gold coins you speak of oh
they're just strewn throughout the level um if you can just take a look they're
they're these uh blue gems and there's like anywhere from 12 to 20 per level
cool so you can you can basically just gather these things and then can show
you how to go through levels so you can beat them more easily if you're stuck yeah exactly we have three different
powerups that you can use by spending those coins you collect there's watch
the computer play it there's a second one that shows a dotted line path
through that is the best path through and the third one is slow motion where
you play it half speed okay that half speed one sounds a little bit powerful
um any more you can add about the game is there a storyline or is there anything actually going on why is he
going through these levels sure uh we've got three main modes to the game there's
there's the story mode which you know it feels like every platformer it needs it
it absolutely needs it uh the gener the general story of the game is that Bob is
very similar to a classic platform hero that we know of except a more realistic
take on it you know he's been rescuing the princess over and over and over and
he's he's sick of it and you can see that he's clearly jaded doesn't want to
be here but he he's just kind of going through the motions and then we've got
arcade mode was a a more competitive experience it's you know it's we're
going for high scores and we have online leaderboards for that and then we've got
a free play mode where it lets you Tinker with the levels personally you
get to adjust every variable that the AI uses to create your own levels now
previously you said you could save levels can you can you create these
levels save them and then give them to someone else by any Jance yes on the on
the PC when you save a level it'll give you a seed that you can save and share
with your friends perfect that's great now the arcade mode that you're
mentioning is what I'm expecting most people are really going to be doing probably play through the single player
get used to it play the arcade mode so that's really cool that you included that I like the leaderboards I like all
that kind of stuff how would someone go about acquiring this game uh you can
acquire this game through Xbox Live arcade PlayStation Network Wii U shop or
steam wow that's that's a lot of different platforms we like to be
flexible that makes sense that's good all right uh if you guys liked our
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