[game_preservation] Computers playing videogames

[Devin Monnens]

First there was the team of researchers who created an algorithm to play
Pitfall.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174930
http://paul.rutgers.edu/~cdiuk/papers/OORL.pdf - paper documenting it

Now, someone has created a Flash program that builds its own Mario levels.
Someone ELSE created a program that plays those levels by itself:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1918634

With Nintendo's announcement of games that will play themselves, this is an
interesting trend. What might this hold for the future of games as well as
preservation? And what might it tell us about learning?

-- 
Devin Monnens
www.deserthat.com

The sleep of Reason produces monsters.
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