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<p class="MsoNormal">Please redistribute and consider participation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies for multiple postings.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Call
for participation - The <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">Geometry</span> <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">Friends</span> <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">Game</span> <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">AI</span> C<span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">ompetition</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Submission
deadline: July 29 - CIG'2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Submission
deadline: June 26 - GECCO'2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/geometryfriends/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/geometryfriends/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;background:rgb(255,255,204)">Geometry</span><span style="font-family:Arial"> <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">Friends (GF)</span> is
a 2-player cooperative puzzle platformer <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">game</span>,
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 style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">game</span> 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 style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">You
can see two agents in action in here:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWUFRMw754" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWUFRMw754</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">It
raises interesting problems for <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">AI</span> agents.
For example, to successfully solve a GF level the players need to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">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 style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">2)
Dealing with limited actuation situated in a simulated physics environment
(with gravity and friction).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">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 style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">4)
Do all the above in real-time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">competition</span> is held at IEEE
Computational Intelligence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">in <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">Games</span> (CIG): <u><a href="http://cig2015.nctu.edu.tw/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://cig2015.nctu.edu.tw/</span></a></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">and Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO): <a href="http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2015/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2015/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Give
it Try!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The
organisation committee,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Rui
Prada, Francisco Melo.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>