Little Learning Machines

As someone who does a lot of machine learning, this game fascinated me when I first saw it a couple of days ago. I love the idea and I think more games need to take a more open-ended approach to allowing players to try different strategies for training neural networks. As a game, it can be fun, and you can learn to be good at this game just through trial and error. But while you can learn with trial and error, you will find the "why" difficult when you fail to properly train your bots. Someone like me who is experienced with the game can sort of guess what goes wrong, either a killed network that is too negatively weighted or is overfit to one specific scenario, but if you're getting this and aren't familiar with neural networks, you'll struggle until you either figure it out or you look up a guide. Let me give an example to show the challenge and triumph: Let's say you want your bot to interact with a ball to throw toward a dog. You may start out direct, rewarding the bot...

The idea behind this game is super novel, and I love programming games, but this isn't enough of an engaging experience yet to warrant a recommendation as of typing. This is still in early access and receiving updates, so I fully expect the gripes I'm writing about to be fixed sometime soon, and likewise, I'm expecting to turn this review into a positive when they are fixed. Right now, the biggest issue for me with this game is the lack of player agency. It feels you're always too constricted in what's provided to you to fully have your bot do what it is you want them to do. The type of machine learning implemented here is a very hands off version, so you're very limited in what you're able to train. More manual supervision options would be very much welcomed, at least for a player like myself. The whole gist of all that follows is that you're extremely limited in what you're given to work with; It's all very oversimplified IMO. It's fair to have something like that in place for begin...

Very unique and original concept, but currently some major issues: - Changes to training islands doesn't always save, there is no indication of an autosave and you can't manual save afaik, so very annoying if you want to exit the game without losing progress. Also I've had several training islands just reset fully so this might be more than a no recent save issue - Training cannot always be stopped for no apparent reason, making it a pain to change love/fear - There are objects you can't find/place in your training that exist in the normal islands (e.g. pumpkin on harvest hill) not sure if intentional or not, but afaik the robots don't recognise objects they haven't encountered in training - No reward can be made for being on empty ground for robots (e.g. if you want to reward them staying on empty ground so they don't step on flowers) or planting on empty ground (so they don't try planting into fences) - More love/fear conditions needed to speed up training (hopefully), but limiting i...

Pretty fun

Super cool and fun way to see in action deep learning :)

A very charming game that provides an excellent environment to play around with neural net training. The developers are very receptive to input as well.

This is a very cute and chill game you can easily spend a lot of time experimenting different learning combinations. There's a couple things that take some getting used to, such as inability to modify controls, but overall this is one of the most unique games I've played! I really liked how from the very beginning it allowed me to think outside of the box and be creative in how I want to lead the bots how to do certain actions. I'm sure there's many possibilities I haven't even considered yet! There's pretty good humor that got me chuckling at times and the costumes are SO adorable!

Really enjoying the collectables/aesthetic in addition to the AI/pet-raising mechanics.

LLM is a delightful game that combines a cozy art style with the fascinating world of AI learning. While this is not the normal games I play the fun brain challenge of how to effectively train my little robot to complete the challenges instantly captured my interest. The serotonin you get after spending minutes pondering out of the box solutions and training your animo and finally achieving said challenge makes this game worthwhile to play.

This game needs a much better tutorial and needs to be more readable. I managed to complete a few quests, but most of the time I don't know what I'm doing or why the bots are behaving as they are. Feels very unsatisfying. I think the game would be great, but since I can't read it it's just frustrating.