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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please redistribute and consider
participation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Apologies for multiple postings.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Call for participation - The Geometry Friends Game AI Competition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission deadline: September 12</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/geometryfriends/" target="_blank">http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/geometryfriends/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Geometry Friends (GF) is a
2-player cooperative puzzle platformer game, where 2 players control 2
characters (a circle and a rectangle), with distinct characteristics, that try
to collect some diamonds in a set of levels as fast as possible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The game promotes collaboration
between the two players and presents challenging coordinated control of the
characters in a simulated physics environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The game promotes collaboration
between the two players and presents challenging control of the characters in a
simulated physics environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can see two agents in action in here:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWUFRMw754" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWUFRMw754</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It raises interesting problems
for AI agents. For example, to successfully solve a GF level
the players need to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1) Deal with coordination at different
layers: from motion control (e.g. achieving perfect timing) to level resolution
(e.g. devising shared plans);</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2) Dealing with limited actuation situated
in a simulated physics environment (with gravity and friction).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">3) Solve platform (skill) based puzzles,
which involves discovering the proper order to collect the diamonds and
identifying the points where collaboration is need.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">4) Do all the above in real-time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The competition is held at IEEE
Computational Intelligence in Games 2016: <a href="http://cig16.image.ece.ntua.gr/" target="_blank">http://cig16.image.ece.ntua.gr/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Give it Try!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The organisation committee,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Rui Prada, Francisco Melo and Gonçalo
Pereira.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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