[game_preservation] Computers playing videogames

[Mike Melanson]

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Games can already play themselves :) You used to be able to set the Left 

> 4 Dead bots to "play without humans" and just move themselves. The AI 

> director there already plays the zombie side if it isn't versus :)


Here's a game called Magnaflux Runner (end of the post) that plays 
itself-- with bizarre results due to a certain bug:

http://games.multimedia.cx/10k-push/

Also, I have a plan one day to create a program that can interpret the 
most inane interactive movie games ever created:

http://multimedia.cx/eggs/dumbass/

I think for a few such titles, I should be able to implement a mode that 
can solve the game by itself (basically a naive maze-solving algorithm).

-- 
     -Mike Melanson