Heading to San Francisco
It’s March and that means it’s time for GDC in San Francisco! I’ll be heading to town this weekend and staying through the week. Right now I’m planning on attending the Online & Social Gaming Summit and Indie Gaming Summit — if you’re attending either of those let’s meet up for lunch! In addition to the summits, I’ll be wandering around the booths and hitting up whatever events look interesting. Anyway, if you’re in the area and would like to get together let me know!
Starting a New Blog
I decided to start a new blog to complement this one. Here I’ve tried to keep things focused on game development and discussion. Believe it or not I am actually interested in some other topics though, so I thought it would be nice to have a place to write about various developments in technology, feature games that look neat, and generally be off topic. It’s also a great chance to try some new technology. Occasionally I will cross post between the two sites if it makes sense. So head on over to Crazier Things Have Happened and let me know what you think!
Switching to Disqus Comments
Just letting you know… I’m switching to Disqus comments or at least trying them out. I’m sure you’ve run into these fancy things elsewhere on the internet so I guess it won’t be a big deal for you. I was finally tempted by some of the neat features such as the ability to reply to comments and integrate with other web applications. Let me know if you think this is a bad idea!
Super Mario World AI
This is a little old but still really cool, so in case any of you haven’t seen or heard about the Super Mario AI contest let me get you up to speed. Basically, a few months ago IEEE held a contest to see who could create the best AI for Super Mario World. The rules were pretty simple. Levels would be programmatically created using a third party library. The program would poll the state of the game periodically and issue commands to Mario with the goal being to reach the end of the level. Recently the results came in, check out the winner’s bot:
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