Linux By Knight: LBK Give The Ms Pac-Man Ghosts a Fighting Chance

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

LBK Give The Ms Pac-Man Ghosts a Fighting Chance

Artificial Intelligence Takes on Ms. Pac-Man

For the last 30 years, Pac-Man's estranged wife, Ms. Pac-Man, has been consuming countless coins and hours from gamers at arcades across North America.

University of Essex, recently launched a competition called Ms. Pac-Man vs. Ghost Team for those wanting to rewrite the flow of the classic chomper. The contest, held last week in New Orleans at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2011, was an open call for savvy Java programmers to create artificial intelligence routines that either control where Ms. Pac-Man or the four ghosts should go during gameplay.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/
http://www.pacman-vs-ghosts.net/
http://www.cec2011.org/

If you can't beat them, hack them.