> It sounds like they literally decompose the game screen into inputs (...) Or maybe not. Maybe they decode the game state into an "image" (...) The GIF above

> It sounds like they literally decompose the game screen into inputs (...) Or maybe not. Maybe they decode the game state into an "image" (...) The GIF above "An example game state representation used to train the neural network" makes it seem like it's the latter. Some of the variables have an unexpected representation. For example to represent "chimera health" with value H, it seems like they just use the 3 rows at the top, with the first H pixels "on" (green) and the remaining "off" (black). Same thing for "Chimera Power" and "Link Energy". I guess this might make sense since they are using a CNN, but I wonder why that works better than using a different architecture and passing each of these values as a single input.