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Space-Cast! #48. Compiling
Computers! They’re always doing pesky things like falling in love. For today’s episode, we’re joined by Michael Yang to discuss Compile, his hit lane-battler that sees two rival programs compete to expand their nascent sentience. Along the way we discuss the game’s inception during the pandemic, the joys of nailing that first pitch, and the heartbreak of having your publisher dissolved by venture capital.
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There Can Only Be 0001
My favorite thing about artificial intelligence is that it’s always eating itself. I’m serious — called model autophagy disorder, it’s what happens when AIs gobble up what other AIs have produced, resulting in an incomprehensible grayscale. Enjoy the buffet, robots!
Swap out the plagiarism engines for actual artificial intelligence and that’s the basis of Compile, Michael Yang’s lane battler and derivation of Jon Perry’s exemplar of the genre, Air, Land, & Sea. Two general intelligences are waking up. Because there can only be one, Highlander style, they have immediately set to the task of compiling their protocols and deleting the other out of existence. Nice. Now if only ChatGPT and Midjourney would hurry up with that.
SPACE-BIFF! 