Submission + - Play Super Mario and contribute to science! (bluenight.dk)
togelius writes: "We're conducting an online experiment to see what makes computer games fun to play. The idea is to let people play two different versions of Super Mario Bros, record their performance and let them answer a few questions about which version they liked best. Then we use artificial intelligence techniques (actually, preference learning via neuroevolution) to find out what makes this game (and presumably other similar games) fun. In the end we will use this information to automatically create even more fun games.
However, we need lots of data to do this. So we need you to play the game. Go ahead and do it, it's the most fun way ever to help advance science!"
However, we need lots of data to do this. So we need you to play the game. Go ahead and do it, it's the most fun way ever to help advance science!"