Now that's an extremely cool competition. The task is to write a controller (agent) for Super Mario that controls the game by itself, winning as many levels of increasing difficulty as possible. The main purpose of this competition is to be able to compare different controller development methodologies against each other, both those based on learning techniques such as artificial evolution and those that are completely hand-coded...

Related Links:
http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ (official site)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8 (screen recording of one entry)



3 Responses to “Super Mario on Crack”

  1. mareike:
    August 11th, 2009 at 11:58 am

    haha.. are you going to take part?

  2. Jens:
    August 11th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    No, I won’t. But I might give it a try once I find some time one day :P

  3. Jo:
    August 29th, 2009 at 8:23 am

    our new intern confessed she has spent 12 up to 16 hrs every day playing WoW. Now WHO is the nerd?

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