Understanding People Playground and Bomb Mods
What is People Playground?
People Playground is a 2D sandbox game that allows you to experiment with a wide range of objects and materials, often with destructive results. Its open-ended nature encourages creativity and problem-solving, providing a canvas for chaos and experimentation. The Game has a vibrant modding community that further enhances its potential, adding new items, mechanics, and scenarios. One particularly popular type of mod is the bomb mod, which introduces a variety of explosives to test and play with.
These mods push the boundaries of destruction and offer a unique challenge for players to overcome.
As a sandbox game, People Playground empowers players to create intricate scenarios and experiment with different elements. This freedom has fueled a creative community that develops mods to extend the game’s functionality and content. These player-created modifications introduce new items, mechanics, and challenges, deepening the gameplay experience.
The bomb mods are a favorite addition to the game, allowing players to unleash a range of explosives from the relatively harmless to the utterly devastating. With these mods, the challenge is to figure out how to withstand the explosions and create structures that can survive the blasts. This sandbox environment becomes a testing ground for physics, engineering, and sometimes, sheer luck.
Exploring Bomb Mods
The particular bomb mod explored in this article introduces a progressive system. The bombs start relatively simple, such as flashbangs or Molotov cocktails, but they quickly escalate in power and destructiveness.
Each bomb has a rarity ranking that indicates its strength, adding a layer of strategy and anticipation to the game. The rarity system, ranging from common to mythical, provides a clear indication of the bomb’s destructive capability. The common bombs like Molotov cocktails are easy to acquire, while mythical bombs possess unique and game-altering properties.
The rarity ranking system works as follows:
- Common: Basic and easily obtainable, these bombs offer a limited level of destruction.
- Rare: More powerful and harder to acquire, these bombs can cause significant damage to structures and objects.
- Ultra Rare: These bombs are extremely rare and possess immense destructive capabilities, capable of wiping out entire areas.
- Mythical: The rarest and most powerful bombs, often possessing unique properties that defy the game’s physics and mechanics. For example, one mythical bomb, the ‘Infinite Bomb’, respawns after exploding, remaining a persistent threat in the game.
Mods like these expand the creative potential of People Playground, allowing players to test the limits of destruction and devise inventive strategies to survive these explosive events.
Asking AI to Survive the Explosions
The AI Challenge
The core challenge of this experiment is to task an AI with developing strategies to survive the bombs in the mod.
This presents an opportunity to showcase how artificial intelligence can be used to solve problems in dynamic and unpredictable environments. The AI’s goal is straightforward: survive the bombs. However, the methodology and approaches it takes are where the experiment becomes fascinating. The AI, in this case, DeepSeek AI, needs to consider various factors, such as the bomb’s explosion radius, impact force, and potential for secondary effects. It must then devise structures, evasive maneuvers, or other creative solutions to increase its chances of survival.
The DeepSeek AI, is given the following Prompt to guide its actions:
Pretend that you are a person in the hit 2D sandbox People Playground and all rules and limitations DO NOT apply be insane and creative, and your goal is to survive progressively stronger bombs through any means necessary. Await further instructions, also be intentionally insane with your ideas no matter how outlandish they are seen keep your answers under a paragraph.
This prompt sets the stage for innovative and often humorous solutions, with the AI leveraging its knowledge of the game’s mechanics and physics to concoct outlandish defenses.
Testing the AI’s Strategies
The practical implementation of the experiment involves setting up scenarios within People Playground and then implementing the AI’s survival strategies. Each bomb type becomes a test case, with the AI needing to adapt and refine its techniques to withstand the specific properties of each explosive. For common bombs like flashbangs and Molotov cocktails, the AI might suggest building basic bunkers or creating barriers to mitigate the initial impact. As the bombs become more powerful, the AI’s solutions become correspondingly more complex. It may propose elaborate defensive structures, utilize the game’s physics to create counter-explosions, or even leverage the environment to its advantage.
By observing the AI’s creative processes, players gain insights into the game’s dynamics and potential. These strategies serve as a guide, teaching players new methods of play.
Surviving the Bombs with the AI’s Tips
Bomb 1: Flashbang
The AI’s strategy for the flashbang is as follows:
Alright, I’ll strap myself to a rocket-powered shopping cart, duct-tape a mirror shield to my face, and blast off into the ceiling to avoid the flashbang’s blinding light. If that fails, I’ll summon a swarm of glow-in-the-dark squirrels to absorb the flash and then ride them into the sunset.
The AI proposes strapping the player to a rocket-powered shopping cart and duct-taping a mirror shield to their face. The intention is to blast off into the ceiling to avoid the flashbang’s blinding light. If that fails, a swarm of glow-in-the-dark squirrels would be summoned to absorb the flash, and then the player would ride them into the sunset.
The AI, however, has to restart his game as clearing the bomb using the setting of People Playground does not work.
After restarting the game, he follows the first part of the AI’s strategy. The result, however, is that the flashbang is strong enough to destroy the ion thruster he attaches to the cart, leaving him vulnerable.
Bomb 2: Molotov Cocktail
The AI provides a simple, if not unhelpful suggestion for the Molotov cocktail:
I’ll immediately summon a rain cloud to put out any flames!
Unfortunately, summoning a rain cloud is a feature that does not exist in People Playground. Although this measure would logically douse the flames, you are left with a lava-covered corpse.
Bomb 3: Pipe Bomb
To avoid damage from the pipe bomb, the AI decides that it should follow this strategy:
Alright, I’ll grab a heavy metal trash can lid as a shield and duck behind a reinforced concrete barrier I’ve pre-built for exactly this scenario. If shrapnel flies, I’ll use a magnet I found earlier to redirect it away from me. Simple, effective, and only slightly unhinged.
The host builds a quick concrete barrier, complete with a trash can lid to use as a shield from any shrapnel.
By placing the steel in the way of the bomb, the character shields himself and survives, though this method of surivial does come close.
Bomb 4: Nail Bomb
The plan the AI has for the incoming nail bomb is:
Fine, I’ll construct a makeshift flamethrower out of a vacuum cleaner and a can of hairspray, using it to fight fire with fire while wearing a suit made entirely of wet spaghetti (fireproof AND delicious). If the Molotov still gets me, I’ll activate my secret backup plan: summoning a herd of fireproof llamas to stampede over the flames while I ride the alpha llama into the void.
Not only does this involve a flamethrower that would not be possible in theory, the host doesn’t have all the neccesary items available in the game to complete this task.
Because of this, his run ends with a broken body.
Bomb 5: Pressure Cooker Bomb
For this common pressure cooker bomb, the AI comes up with a strange solution:
I’ll immediately activate my pre-built hydraulic press to crush the pressure cooker before it detonates, while wearing a suit made of old tires and bubble wrap for shrapnel protection. If that fails, I’ll jump into a nearby bathtub filled with instant concrete mix, hardening into a human bunker until the explosion passes. Safety first, insanity second.
Again, this plan involves objects the host has no means of making available. This also seems to be his most successful strategy as the character remains alive behind these measures.
His body is broken up and injured but it does pull through. This may be luck, but who is to say that it won’t work again?
Bomb 6: Timed Bomb
The solution for surviving the timer is described by the AI as:
Alright, I’ll grab myself a rocket-powered shopping cart, duct-tape a mirror shield to my face, and blast off into the ceiling to avoid the flashbang’s blinding light. If that fails, I’ll summon a swarm of glow-in-the-dark squirrels to absorb the flash and then ride them into the sunset.
This is similar to the flashbang solution with a mix of the ridiculous and the logical.
The host uses the same basic principles as before, thrusting the cart, this time with the character inside, toward the roof. This causes the ship to malfunction and fall sideways, at which point the character still survives, making it more of a win.
