CloudBerry Kingdom by Pwnee - Potentially the most difficult platformer ever? PAX 2013
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·2014-05-07
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lineus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series hey guys this is a game I knew about before I got to packs and
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wasn't sure that they were going to be here but once I luckily walked P across
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their Booth I had to check it out this is cloudberry Kingdom in all of its
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insanity this game is known for the incredible amounts of difficulty and I
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was wondering what else you could add to this picture uh well it's randomly
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generated 2D platformer so every time you play a level it's completely brand
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new you'll never see it again unless you choose to save it which another story um
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really so it's just an awesome platformer with infinite levels so
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infinite replayability you can never get bard of it that's a really good way of
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saying it randomly randomly generated levels in a platformer is a really
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interesting idea but I think you guys pulled it off pretty well now the thing
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I brought up earlier about difficulty can you expand more on that how you can
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push it to the Limit sure uh we spent about 2 years creating an AI That's able
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to design these levels and through throughout the process we realize that
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we can really crank this up so what's
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great about our AI it's flexibility I mean you can create some of the easiest
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levels you've seen in your life I mean you know like a 5-year-old can play it
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versus you know you can crank it up to like some super I don't know like if
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Bruce Lee was a gamer he could do it you know something I mean so it's really
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flexible in terms of what it can do and it can be the easiest thing you've ever
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seen or the hardest thing you've ever seen that's awesome because when you can
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crank up the ability to the ability not that then when you can H up the
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difficulty to that level you can get some pretty awesome playthroughs I've
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already seen some videos recorded on YouTube of people beating certain levels
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and it's just nuts it's fun to see that
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um with this amount of AI building levels I I already know the answer to
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this but is it possible for them to make one that's actually impossible it is
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possible to make it impossible but when that happens the computer automatically
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deletes the level every level that you will actually experience within the game
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is provable by the computer and if you don't believe it you actually you can
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buy a power up in the game it's five coins whatever it is and you can just
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watch the computer run through the level for you just as proof there you go so if
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you're getting really pissed off because you can't beat a level it is your fault
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it is not the game's fault how do you get these gold coins you speak of oh
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they're just strewn throughout the level um if you can just take a look they're
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they're these uh blue gems and there's like anywhere from 12 to 20 per level
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cool so you can you can basically just gather these things and then can show
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you how to go through levels so you can beat them more easily if you're stuck yeah exactly we have three different
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powerups that you can use by spending those coins you collect there's watch
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the computer play it there's a second one that shows a dotted line path
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through that is the best path through and the third one is slow motion where
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you play it half speed okay that half speed one sounds a little bit powerful
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um any more you can add about the game is there a storyline or is there anything actually going on why is he
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going through these levels sure uh we've got three main modes to the game there's
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there's the story mode which you know it feels like every platformer it needs it
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it absolutely needs it uh the gener the general story of the game is that Bob is
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very similar to a classic platform hero that we know of except a more realistic
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take on it you know he's been rescuing the princess over and over and over and
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he's he's sick of it and you can see that he's clearly jaded doesn't want to
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be here but he he's just kind of going through the motions and then we've got
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arcade mode was a a more competitive experience it's you know it's we're
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going for high scores and we have online leaderboards for that and then we've got
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a free play mode where it lets you Tinker with the levels personally you
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get to adjust every variable that the AI uses to create your own levels now
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previously you said you could save levels can you can you create these
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levels save them and then give them to someone else by any Jance yes on the on
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the PC when you save a level it'll give you a seed that you can save and share
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with your friends perfect that's great now the arcade mode that you're
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mentioning is what I'm expecting most people are really going to be doing probably play through the single player
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get used to it play the arcade mode so that's really cool that you included that I like the leaderboards I like all
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that kind of stuff how would someone go about acquiring this game uh you can
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acquire this game through Xbox Live arcade PlayStation Network Wii U shop or
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steam wow that's that's a lot of different platforms we like to be
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flexible that makes sense that's good all right uh if you guys liked our
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