Young Gamer Beats Tetris AI in Honor of Late Father, Highlighting Gaming World Records and Creative Achievements
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13-year-old Willis Gibson became the first human to beat the original Nintendo Tetris game's AI in 2023, dedicating his win to his late father.
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"Speedrunning" involves players exploiting glitches and optimizing routes to complete games very quickly; the world record Super Mario Bros speedrun by Niftski is just 0.35 seconds slower than a perfect theoretical run.
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Minecraft players have collaboratively built a 11 scale model of the entire world, with blocks representing 1 cubic meter each.
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The Halo 3 community collectively fought a fictional "Great War" against aliens, generating over 1.4 petabytes of data on Bungie's servers over 9 months.
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While "gamification" aims to motivate people by adding game-like elements to non-game contexts, "gameful design" focuses more on fulfilling experiences and intrinsic motivation.