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Linus tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by western digital Intel and steel series hey guys this is a game I knew about before I got two packs and wasn't sure that they were going to be here but once I luckily walked past across their booth I had to check it out this is cloudberry Kingdom in all of its insanity this game is known for the incredible amounts of difficulty and I was wondering what else you could add to this picture well it's randomly generated 2d platformer so every time you play a level it's completely brand-new you'll never see it again unless you choose to save it which is another story really so it's just an awesome platformer with infinite levels so infinite replayability you can never get bored of it that's a really good way of saying it randomly puts randomly generated levels in a platformer is a really interesting idea but I think you guys pulled it off pretty well now the thing I brought up earlier about difficulty can you expand more on that how you can push it to the limit sure we spent about two years creating an AI that's able to design these levels and throughout the process we realize that we can really crank this up so what's great about Rai is flexibility I mean you can create some of the easiest levels you've seen in your life I mean you know like a five-year-old can play it versus you know you can crank it up to like some super I don't know like if Bruce Lee was a gamer he could do it yeah something I mean so it's really flexible in terms of what it can do and it can be the easiest thing you've ever seen or the hardest thing you've ever seen that's awesome because when you can crank up the ability to the ability not that that when you can hang up the difficulty to that level you can get some pretty awesome playthroughs I've already seen some videos recorded on YouTube of people beating certain levels and it's just nuts it's fun to see that with this amount of AI building levels I already know the answer this but is it possible for them to make one that's actually impossible it is possible to make it impossible but when that happens the computer automatically deletes the level every level that you will actually experience within the game is provable by the computer and if you don't believe it you actually you can buy a powerup in the game it's five coins whatever it is and you can just watch the computer run through the level for you just as proof there you go so if you're getting really pissed off because you can't beat a level it is your fault it is not the game's fault how do you get these gold coins you speak up oh they're just strewn throughout the level you can just take a look there they're these blue gems and there's like anywhere from 12 to 20 per level cool so you can you can basically just gather these things and then it can show you how to go through levels so you can beat them more easily if you're stuck yeah exactly we have three different power-ups that you can use by spending those coins you collect there's watch the computer play it there's a second one that shows a dotted line path through that is the best path through and the third one is slow motion where you play at half speed okay that half speed one sounds a little bit powerful anymore you can add about the game is their story line there anything actually going on why is he going through these levels sure we've got three main modes to the game there's there's a story mode which you know it feels like every platformer it needs it it absolutely needs it the generic the general story of the game is that Bob is very similar to a classic platform hero that we know of except a more realistic take on you know he's been rescuing the princess over and over and over and he's he's sick of it and you can see that it's clearly jaded doesn't want to be here but he's just kind of going through the motions and then we got arcade mode was a more competitive experience it's you know it's we're going for high scores and we have online leaderboards for that and we've got a free play mode where it lets you tinker with the levels personally you get to adjust every variable that the AI uses to create your own levels now previously you said you could save levels can you can you create these levels save them and then give them to someone else when he checks yes on the on the pc when you save a level it'll give you a seed that you can save and share with your friends perfect that's great now the arcade mode that you're mentioning is what i'm expecting most people are really going to be doing probably play through the sigma player i get used to it play their arcade mode so that's really cool that you included that I like the leaderboards alike all that kind of stuff how would someone go about acquiring this game you can acquire this game through xbox live arcade playstation network wii u eshop or steam wow that's a lot of different platforms flexible that makes sense that's good all right if you guys liked our 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