<![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @Katana_Mind: speaking of weighted companion cubes, i actually found "the enemy's base is down" a good philosophy for quickly orienting one's self when making the transition from one portal to the next.

arachnophilia

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> The game always was to disable Peter but he figured it out to late being a 3rd and never made it back to earth in time to dispute the hedgemony. His sister was powerless besides being a political blogger peon to Peters ideals. Ofcourse a videogame would be pointless as that isn't the point of the book anyway. If they took it down the road of the book overall timeline they could make a good game about how judgement and ideals of one species interplanetary or family can doom both in the process.

Hypenotist

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> [blog.newsweek.com]

The game is going to be the Battle Room - it's being designed to be distributed via online content providers like Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Network.

chipsndip

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @cde: Third cousins, twice-removed.

urukhaifive

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> they shoulda made this film, and made it GOOD, years ago. yeah, I know, 'well' is grammatically correct, so bite me nutsack, Mildred.

banmojo

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> Unless you're actually, say, invading Iran by playing the game, it's a wash.

Slatz_Grobnik

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> Remember, the gate is down...

AZTriGuy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @nutbastard: An MMO with players' teams competing for real rankings would be sweet. Maybe a certain percentage of the team is controlled by AI: the "launchies," who would naturally be awkward and clueless. But yeah, I forgot about the mechanics of the flash suit. There's no way to make that work.

mumblingmynah

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> Oh, boy! A collection of minigames!

* Bully thrashing (think SF II... but with kids)!
* Hacking the desks (think Uplink)!
* The Giant Game (think Fable)!
* The Battle Room (think Capture The Flag)!
* The War "Simulation" (think Homeworld)!
* Writing Political Screeds as Peter/Demosthenes!

Sounds... just great.

Jonathan Harford

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @mumblingmynah:
or do a thing like rainbow 6 vegas whee you can switch seamlessly between 1st and 3rd person. the big problem is the "you can only shoot where you're looking" limitation we currently live under. the maneuvers describes in the book often involved flying on way while spinning and shooting in another direction.

for a single player battle room game, yeah, something like that but with AI it becomes less dynamic, more, well, artificial. MMO would be better.

i dont know how youd handle the flash suit though. honestly if theres one game that CANNOT be done to satisfaction, its the Battle Room. how would you grab a frozen soldier and throw him, or wrap him around you as a shield, grabbing his gun and going akimbo? the battle room is so much more complex than its often made out to be.

Wait 50 years and they'll have a real one.


nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @nutbastard: It should be more than a FPS, as there's definitely a strategy element to the battle room. Maybe you give orders and formations to your troops before combat starts, and then let AI take over? Or some combination thereof?

mumblingmynah

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @nutbastard: I know! : ) Miss you.

housebunny

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> Text based adventure game ala Zork.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @bunnypower:
i didn't say you couldn't...?


nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @nutbastard: I agree but you should be able to be Bean, too.

housebunny

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @urukhaifive: Any relation to my dear friend, the Weighted Companion Cube?

cde

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> It sure as hell won't be a remake of Advent Rising.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> And maybe a naked in the showers Bonzo hand-to-hand combat, plus the full simulation he plays on eros.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> We need:

FPS Battleroom
3rd person Fantasy Game
The game that Ender beat the older kid at best 2 out of 3



nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> Rated E for Everyone except homosexuals.

GORF

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @urukhaifive:
But of course : )
Only, with a tear decorating its sides, instead of the customary heart.

Katana_Mind

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> Must one be naked to play it?

Dnyels

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @Garrison Dean: Agreed. When I first read this as a kid (good lord, I just realized I read this for the first time nearly 20 years ago...) I thought animation wasthe only way, but wouldn't do it justice. Then Pixar came around and I thought again, but it still wouldn't have been real enough. Final Fantasy animation? Nope, not lifelike enough. Polar Express was getting there, but yes, creeeeeeepy. The way that technology advanced for Beowulf, I'm convinced they could pull it off that way now. Still going to be controversial with putting such young kids in adult situations, though. Then again, I just watched 300, and that opening montage with the young Leonidas beating the crap out of the other kid, if that made it through then maybe there's a chance...

AZTriGuy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @Katana_Mind: Weighted shame cube?

urukhaifive

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> Why do They insist on destroying all my beautiful stories?
At this point I'm so jaded about how badly all the adaptations are done that there's a constant cube of shame nesting in my stomach.

Katana_Mind

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> @AZTriGuy: Yeah MoCap CG was the other thing I was thinking that could get you away from the burdens of an all child cast (and the serious dramatic skills needed for a couple of the stars). Somewhere between Beowulf and Monster House, while totally ignoring the creeeeeepy kids in Polar Express.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> I just finally started reading this last week and as I was read it (haven't finished) I kept saying this is great, would be a great movie, but totally unfilmable because it would be all children in adult situations. So I said, it would probably be doable as a video game... and there you have it.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> I thought the game was basically going to be the Battle Room. You work your way up through being a launchie, part of a toon, toon leader, to eventually commanding your own army. Didn't sound like there was a lot to it, certainly not playing through as Ender. That's at least the take I got from yesterday's press release. Maybe the future titles would focus on the space combat simulations found later in the book (trying not to spoil any plot for those who might not have read this excellent book).

There hasn't been any real status on the movie since September, I don't think Peterson is officially attached at this point though, but he has expressed that he wants to do it. Doing a live-action "Ender's Game" movie is incredibly challenging, mostly around the age of the actors and the situations they are going to have to put them in (is an audience ready to see a 5-year old boy brutally kill another to start the movie off?). I thought the Battle Room scenes would be tough too, but over the last few years that tech has come a long way too (Quidditch, etc.) I've said for years that I think an animated version is the only way they could really do it, but the tech wasn't there to make it real enough. Until I saw Beowulf. I think that might just be the way to go for this. Real, but not.

AZTriGuy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> the end battle would be cool.

Horselover Fat

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Game In Ender's Game?]]> I say yes. I also say that a mindless videogame shoot-em-up is the exact opposite of the philosophy of the novel. But there's money to be made, so whatevz.

SeeingI

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