August 2009 Archives

The Mario AI Competition is a competition where you submit agents, written in Java, that play Mario in randomized Super Mario Brothers levels.

The video above is an amazingly cool run by one team. At about 45 seconds in, the machines rise up and crush their human masters.

The starter project provides lots of example agents and looks pretty easy to get started with. Though the contest deadline is very soon, this could still be a great home learning project.

(via Grand Text Auto)