{"id":644,"date":"2009-08-06T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-08-06T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:16:26","slug":"there-is-no-koopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"There is no Koopa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make $500?<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is <a href=\"http:\/\/julian.togelius.com\/mariocompetition2009\/index.php\">make Mario come to life<\/a> with an artificially intelligent computer program.  And he has to survive as many randomly-generated game levels as possible from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mojang.com\/notch\/mario\">Infinite Mario Bros<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>Piece of cake!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0s3d1LfjWCI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0s3d1LfjWCI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>A contest entry.  From the entrant:  &#8220;Here&#8217;s my attempt at an AI for the <a href=\"http:\/\/julian.togelius.com\/mariocompetition2009\/index.php\">Mario AI Competition<\/a>. You can see the path it plans to go as a red line, which updates when it detects new obstacles at the right screen border. It uses only information visible on screen. I&#8217;ve included a slow-motion part in the middle where it gets hairy for Mario. :-)&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DlkMs4ZHHr8&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_profilepage&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DlkMs4ZHHr8&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_profilepage&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>Here is the same intelligent agent playing a longer level.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>These agents will be unstoppable once they replicate in the Matrix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/120230-bigthumbnail.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make $500? All you have to do is make Mario come to life with an artificially intelligent computer program. And he has to survive as many randomly-generated game levels as possible from the Infinite Mario Bros project. Piece &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-evolutionary-computing","category-tech","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}