These videos by Tom7 are indeed great. They don't display the use of deep learning though; the method is something quite different [1]. Maybe you could use the

These videos by Tom7 are indeed great. They don't display the use of deep learning though; the method is something quite different [1]. Maybe you could use the objective functions of Tom7 to determine which moves are good or bad in order to train a policy network? [1]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf