[glaberficken]

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?

[jklehm]

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

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15026399

[glaberficken]

brilliant! thank you

[wjnc]

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]

Why wouldn't you want to download the rom?

[glaberficken]

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 ;) "

[AboutTheWhisles]

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.