mario ai championship
The Mario AI Championship 2009-2012
Togelius, Julian (IT University of Copenhagen) | Shaker, Noor (IT University of Copenhagen) | Karakovskiy, Sergey (St. Petersburg State University) | Yannakakis, Georgios N. (University of Malta)
Bros. The competition has four tracks. Almost as important is that good scoring mechanisms are available, that the visual aspects of the games make it easy to compare and characterize the performance of the controllers, and that it is easy to engage both students and the general public in the competition. Several recently introduced competitions are based on games such as Ms. Pac-Man (Lucas 2007), the first-person shooter Unreal Tournament (Hingston 2010), the real-time strategy game Star-Craft, and the car racing game TORCS (Loiacono et al. 2010). In 2009, Julian Togelius and Sergey Karakovskiy set out to create a benchmark for game AI controllers based on Infinite Mario Bros (IMB). IMB is an open source clone (created by Markus Persson, who later went on to create Minecraft) of Nintendo's platform game Super Mario Bros. (SMB), which has been one of the world's most influential games since its release in 1985.