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xurxodiz / MarioLevels

My entry for the Mario AI Championship 2012, implementing adaptive procedural level generation. Holds 1st place at the all-time points and percentage tally.

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Level type #10

Closed xurxodiz closed 12 years ago

xurxodiz commented 12 years ago

Finally, a issue that is seemingly stress-free.

Levels can be of three types: overground, underground, or castle. They affect the aesthetics only, unless you want to respect the classic distribution of enemies per stage. Of course if it's underground it would be nice to paint a ceiling.

Easy mode: randomize it (current approach). We don't let enemy placement be affected by the choice, hell, we don't even place ceilings for the underground stage.

Hard mode: make a difference between the choices, and pick a criteria for selecting them.

xurxodiz commented 12 years ago

I've decided that this will only affect aesthetics, and limit the enemy distribution to the algorithm and not tie it to the stage (or viceversa).

So I will use it to represent each one of the three user clusters found in #23

xurxodiz commented 12 years ago

The assignation is as follows:

Cluster 00 or intermediate gets overground type. It's the most crowded group, so it gets the most beautifully pleasant experience.
Cluster 01 or speeder gets castle type. Since they're Sonic-like gamers, they get the most futuristic looking environment.
Cluster 02 or explorer, finally, gets stuck with underground. Sorry guys. It had to be somebody.