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Mario AI Competition 110

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @03:37AM from the must-be-on-mushrooms-when-you-write-the-code dept.

togelius writes "We're running a competition to see who can program the best AI for a version of Super Mario Bros. It's about deciding what to do at each time step — run, jump, shoot etc. — based on a description of the platforms, items and enemies around Mario. This is hard. It's so hard we believe that some sort of machine learning algorithm will be necessary to reach good playing performance. But really, any approach is fair game. We welcome hard-coded submissions, commercial AI programmers, academics and amateurs alike. Whoever wins, it will be really interesting. The competition is associated with two IEEE conferences, and there are cash prizes available for the best submissions."

Looking Back At Far Cry 2 138

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 31, 2009 @03:37AM from the with-extra-ammo-and-regret dept.

Gamasutra has an interview with Ubisoft's Patrick Redding about the development of Far Cry 2. He explains his team's reasoning behind some of the decisions they made while trying to innovate in the very well-established first-person shooter genre. Ubisoft is also trying to crowdsource a guide for the game. "We don't want to be necessarily spoon-feed everything to people, because that gets insulting. It's also tiresome if you're constantly interrupting them to remind them things about that system. I like to learn things through trial and error, and I know a lot of players are like that. But accessibility isn't just about it being easy to pick up the controls. It's also making sure that you're supporting a certain kind of readability, giving the player a certain kind of feedback. Maybe the way to put it is that it might be less a function of the kind of low-level mechanics of the game at the control level, and more about how you're using the output of the game as good feedback for the player, so they at least are clear on the causal link between what they're doing and what's happening."

Comment Re:I'd rather (Score 1) 289

by hevo on Friday March 17, 2006 @12:50PM (#14942494) Attached to: Australian PM Has Parody Site Shut Down

The US is an expert marketing country. They market a lot of infactuals .... As you pointed out, its market itself as the beacon of civil rights. while black only are "free" the latest 50 years, where gays cant be couples, where arabs are profiled, etc. And if you look at countries like Canada.. it doesnt market that they never had need for civil rights movement since its creation.

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