Infinite Mario AI - Long Level

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as a vivid demo that plain A* search can beat fancier machine-learning approaches in game AI.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Robin Baumgarten

Topic

game ai pathfinding

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2009–2012

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From the original HN conversations

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• If you are impressed with this one follow the link in the video to here: [VIDEO] For all my hours as a kid I was never this good, I never even realized I could kill the pipe fish by jumping from below.

• Reminds me of the AI competition on infinite mario, recently: Here is a video of the winning bot (A* based approach), cool to watch, as they display its trajectory calculations. [VIDEO] GA is cool and everything, but I am sometimes sceptical about its merits. Yes, …

• The original java infinite mario was used in the fascinating Mario AI competition. Details and papers here: [LINK] Video of last years winning entry at work here: [VIDEO] It's pretty interesting, a lot of people wrote/are writing high falutin' machine learning algorithms, but they are …