The contest page (http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/) talks about being based on the "Infinite Mario Bros game by Markus Persson .. with the added benefit of endless random level generation".
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the sorts of levels that this program generates never have conditions where you must backtrack and take a different path, to complete it. Especially after seeing a few examples in these videos.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the sorts of levels that this program generates never have conditions where you must backtrack and take a different path, to complete it. Especially after seeing a few examples in these videos.