MarioFlowGDX

An evolutionary neural network trained to play a clone of the original NES Super Mario Bros.

This project contains the source code for an evolutionary algorithm optimized artificial neural network trained to play a clone of the first level of Super Mario Bros.

All code was written in Java using the libGDX game development framework and TensorFlow machine intelligence library.

Screenshots

Development Setup

1. Install Java JDK
2. Install Gradle
3. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/artur-sak13/MarioFlowGDX.git

4. Open the project in a Java supporting IDE (i.e. Eclipse, IntelliJ, Netbeans, etc.)
5. Import the Gradle project settings
6. Edit your run configuration and make sure that core/assets is set as your working directory
7. Run the project and have fun!

Usage

You can either run com.artursak.mariobros.desktop as a Java application to build the project or run the .jar file

java -jar MarioBros.jar

Controls

• Left arrow or A -> Move Left
• Right arrow or D -> Move Right
• Up arrow or W -> Jump
• Spacebar -> Fireball

Note: Fire Mario and stars items are not yet implemented so Mario can throw fireballs from the start.

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