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kiiski

What did you expect? The title is "Infinite Mario in HTML5".

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I'm not disappointed, but I was actually hoping it was a playable html5 version of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OytHzZ72Y

My favorite part is when he misses the goalpost in his first pass and then goes back a second time and hits it.

Yea, but what's infinite about it?

It's a HTML 5 version of older (Java/Flash?) game called "Infinite Mario".

edit: I'm not sure about this, but I got the idea that it randomly generates the map/levels.

The original[1] was made by the Minecraft guy. Like most of his projects, the levels are randomly generated. The levels themselves end, but there is no end to the actual game. It just keeps generating new levels.

[1]: http://www.mojang.com/notch/mario/

Got it. For some reason I was expecting some sort of Mario AI or something. Thanks!

The Mario AI Competition used the original Infinite Mario...

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