The company behind a famous viral clip that saw it offending animation legend Hayao Miyazaki has a game out next week.<\/p>\n
The clip, from a Japanese TV show<\/a> which aired back in 2016, showed the CEO of Tokyo-based company Attructure demonstrating an animation prototype to the Studio Ghibli co-founder, who looked on stony-faced.<\/p>\n The demonstration showed a creature, which looked like a zombie, using machine learning to figure out how to move itself across a room, rather than have an animator create the movement for it.<\/p>\n The video went viral for the awkward moment where Miyazaki says the animation insults him because it reminds him of his disabled friend, and calls the prototype \u201can insult to life itself\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 a statement which leaves Attructure\u2019s CEO looking mortified.<\/p>\n Now (as spotted by Automaton<\/a>) Attructure is releasing ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution<\/a>, a game which appears to have evolved from the tech seen in that prototype.<\/p>\n The game features creatures made out blocks, which \u201cshuffle around awkwardly under a physics engine\u201d as they learn how to move.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Taking the role of a God-like being, players can either watch as the creatures evolve and grow more adept to the physics engine, or interfere by shaping the world and either helping them out or creating meteor storms to make life harder for them.<\/p>\n \u201cCreatures that learn to move effectively toward food will survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits,\u201d the game\u2019s description reads. \u201cThrough each generation, their bodies gradually evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n Claiming that the game has \u201cno story, no complex ecosystem, no goals\u201d, the studio says the aim is to \u201csimply relax in a soothing atmosphere and watch these creatures do their best to live\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company behind a famous viral clip that saw it offending animation legend Hayao Miyazaki has a game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-450753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}