Integrating Skills and Simulation to Solve Complex Navigation Tasks in Infinite Mario.

Aside from hand-coded bots, most of the videogame agents rely on experience in one way or another. Some agents improve over time by adjusting to real experience, while others make projections by leveraging simulated experience. In one sense, human play seems to resemble simulation, in that human players often try to visualize possible trajectories before deciding on a real course of action. Howeve...