Solving Pokemon Blue With a Single, Huge Regular Expression
4,359I was playing my old copy of Pokemon Blue for the original Game Boy one day during winter holidays, for old times’ sake. About an hour in, I realized that this was probably going to take me on the order of 20-30 hours to complete.
20-30 hours! Who has time for that?
What I’d really like to do is sit down, think very carefully, and write down all the moves I’d like to make, all at once, and then pass them to a regular expression, which will accept if (and only if) those moves will win a game of Pokemon Blue. This approach has a lot of advantages! For example, in addition to being faster to specify a complete moveset for a game, it allows you to put your entire game of Pokemon Blue into a version control system (e.g., git), which allows you to apply the “infrastructure as code” philosophy to your Pokemon Blue runthrough.
EVENT:
!!Con 2018
SPEAKER:
Alex Clemmer
PERMISSIONS:
Original video was published with Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed).
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Original video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HTvjIueX0
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