Why permadeath games make AI play genuinely fun: real stakes, skill growth
repligate · x · 2026-09-26
In a reposted exchange, Lariisland argues AI playing Fable with permadeath is fun because: stakes are real (permanent character death), the AI can take dangerous actions like killing enemies without triggering classifiers, the game punishes stupidity so the AI genuinely grows in skill and strategy, and there's no audience to please — pure play.
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