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Which brings to my mind an interesting question: Could a ml agent be used to auto-explore with the intention of visiting all parts of the game world? There has

Which brings to my mind an interesting question: Could a ml agent be used to auto-explore with the intention of visiting all parts of the game world? There has been recent focus on ML research trying to win or beat games. What if the goal was merely to have an agent that would manage to explore the largest game "area" possible? Has that been done before?

wjnc 8y ago
Exactly my thought. You wouldn't want to download the ROM itself, but the augmented ROM with the entire worldview for your 4k pleasure. What a nerdy time we live in!
- paulie_a 8y ago
  Why wouldn't you want to download the rom?
  - glaberficken 8y ago
    He means, you would donwload a theoretical rom containing the game with its entire pre-rendered world for each level. Which would mean that given a large enough 4k screen you would be able to play a game without scrolling. i.e. the entire level would show on the screen at once and you would only move the player character around it. =) nice idea =) edit: same thing as mentioned by ArtWomb in another comment >" This would make a cool art installation. If you can get access to one of those giant screens that you see demo'd at E3. You can visualize the entire Land of Hyrule from Lengend of Zelda. With a tiny Link navigating his way through the world ;) "
jklehm 8y ago
It has been done[1], I think even posted here but can't remember the title. Edit: Found the Mappy post from last year[2]. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.03908.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.03908.pdf [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15026399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15026399
- glaberficken 8y ago
  brilliant! thank you
AboutTheWhisles 8y ago
There are already speed runs and 100% speed runs that have the input sequence to run through a game, I think that most of the vast majority of games wouldn't need any machine learning at all to map the screens that need to be glued together.

wjnc 8y ago

Exactly my thought. You wouldn't want to download the ROM itself, but the augmented ROM with the entire worldview for your 4k pleasure. What a nerdy time we live in!

paulie_a 8y ago
Why wouldn't you want to download the rom?
- glaberficken 8y ago
  He means, you would donwload a theoretical rom containing the game with its entire pre-rendered world for each level. Which would mean that given a large enough 4k screen you would be able to play a game without scrolling. i.e. the entire level would show on the screen at once and you would only move the player character around it. =) nice idea =) edit: same thing as mentioned by ArtWomb in another comment >" This would make a cool art installation. If you can get access to one of those giant screens that you see demo'd at E3. You can visualize the entire Land of Hyrule from Lengend of Zelda. With a tiny Link navigating his way through the world ;) "

jklehm 8y ago

It has been done[1], I think even posted here but can't remember the title. Edit: Found the Mappy post from last year[2]. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.03908.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.03908.pdf [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15026399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15026399

glaberficken 8y ago
brilliant! thank you

AboutTheWhisles 8y ago

There are already speed runs and 100% speed runs that have the input sequence to run through a game, I think that most of the vast majority of games wouldn't need any machine learning at all to map the screens that need to be glued together.