Twitch streamer Perrikaryal uses her mind to play a creature survival game Palworld. Using a completely hands-free setup, Perrikaryal is busy crafting, fighting, jumping and catching friends using only her brain, set to an electroencephalogram (EEG) device. She uses four mind control commands, several voice commands to fill in the gaps, and gyro and eye tracking for movement.
It’s something Perrikaryal has worked with before Fortnite, Eldenring, Halo Infinity, Fall guys, and several other games, but Palword uses the most mind controls so far, she said during the stream. Perrikaryal uses special devices and programs to “link” the mind control’s visualizations and feelings to in-game commands – for example, she imagines a cricket jumping to make her character jump or thinks of the heat and muscle contractions associated with anger while crafting. She “trains” these visualizations several times to associate them with the command, and then jumps in Palworld to test it out. And it works, because it recognizes brain wave patterns that bind her to certain controls.
It’s truly breathtaking to see in action, and almost difficult to understand how the practice even works. But if there is someone who can, that is Perrikayal, who has a master’s degree in psychology And defeat Elden Ring‘s Malenia – one of the notoriously difficult game’s toughest bosses – with her mind control technology. For Elden Ringshe uses a controller to move, but uses the same concepts as in Palworld gameplay to play Elden Ring, that is, suggesting different things, such as pushing a boulder, to attack. It took a lot of work, like hundreds of deaths – to defeat Malenia. But she did it. Perrikayals Palworld The goal was much simpler: just catch a friend. But she’s only just begun that journey, and there’s likely much more she’ll accomplish. For a game like Elden Ringshe has spent a significant amount of time training the EEG to recognize the patterns associated with whatever she is imaging, and that process has only just begun Palworld.
But even with limited training, it works – and it’s incredibly cool.