here it's called not "video games" but "computer games", which kinda hints that it's not only about the graphics and sound, and that computers are somehow involved in the process, not just A/V
and I always heard in this term the fact that you may turn basically any interaction with a computer into a game, whether it's by design or not
and I always heard in this term the fact that you may turn basically any interaction with a computer into a game, whether it's by design or not
@amiloradovsky "qualia games"
@amiloradovsky although there are zero-player games, which aren't concerned about external observer. And those are computer games too. Usually.
@dpwiz zero-player game? isn't it the same thing as calling water dihydrogen monoxide?
naming things after degenerate case of a generalisation of it is a pretty common kind of humor among the specialists
naming things after degenerate case of a generalisation of it is a pretty common kind of humor among the specialists
@amiloradovsky Hm?.. It's a real genre with "playable" "games".
@dpwiz how it is a game? is it formulated as a tree with strategies mapping knowable information about the state of the game (which node we're at) to the decision (outgoing edge)? or is there a normal form for it, how many strategies are taken as input and what is the dimensionality of the output? it can't be zero — just because some players aren't humans doesn't make it "zero-player"
@dpwiz I always thought a cruise missile is something like a cruise liner but a missile
I even struggle to explain why there are two dimensions in the popular political spectrum — what the left-right even means and how is it independent from authoritarian-libertarian