TEDxPennQuarter - Frank Lantz - Reinventing Gaming

[Akwon47]

It's my professor!

[silmaril555]

Starcraft 2 got released at the same time as this talk. What he says about poker also works for Starcraft 2. Nothing ground breaking here...

[onee]

@silmaril555 Eeeuuuhhh... No Starcraft 2 isn't the same as Poker. When you are bluffing your body language will sometimes reveal it. That is almost impossible when you are playing Starcraft 2. In Starcraft 2 you get punished for bad decisions and rewarded for good ones. This isn't always the case in Poker.

[MrBJR69]

Holland! :D

[heitortsergent]

Talk wasn't great, as he mostly talked about poker and assumed people knew things about it.

[theway280]

he said street fighter

[Elpimpin]

The fuck is this shit. Hes not reinventing games at all. Just talking about poker.

Decent for the quote though.

[DjurslandsEfterskole]

@Elpimpin He never said he would reinvent games. He's talking about the implications of reinventing gam_ing_. How we interact with them, how we view them, and how they are reflecting ourselves. Not just their technological advancement.

[Brionnic]

I like Drop 7 but it is really buggy (crashes, forgets sound settings, forgets high scores...) and ultimately there isn't enough strategy. I just finished a prototype remake in flash and now I'm going to see if adding different things makes it more fun. While his talk was interesting, I wish he'd devote more energy to even just debugging Drop 7, much less improving the game play.

[CandyHam]

good talk, there were a few minutes of real substance that got me thinking about how the interactive medium can improve on being completely unique. The thought of creating something that has profundity that literature and film often enjoy, but doing it without characters and reducing the familiarity of common themes and ideas down to fundamental expressions... it is very exciting to me. The future should hold great things.

[mrdrofficer]

I've really wanted to make puzzle games and have lots of ideas, but I can't get past the programming threshold. If anybody wants to make the next Drop 7, give me a call.

Also, I really enjoyed this talk. Once I broke the rules of Poker by not looking at my cards for five hours and winning $200. Needless to say, I was not invited back after that. I wish someone would do that in the World Series of Poker.

[nogood510]

@mrdrofficer Well, needless to say there is a lot of variance in poker both positive and negative, and that no doubt was a positive (and lucky) one. I highly doubt anyone who truly takes the game and its very subtle intricacies at the highest levels of play would ever play their hands blind especially at WSOP. Definitely not a positive EV move. Anyway, great vid. I found the parts on poker lessons being put to use in other aspects of life extremely interesting, as I'm a serious poker hobbyist.

[mrdrofficer]

@nogood510 I agree. In theory his poker variances are very compelling.