Rune Race

Quote from: KoreanRedDragon on April 06, 2022, 01:13 PM

Mablak's entrance music sounds in the distance...

Sounds like a Terraria boss incoming.

Eater of Worlds has awoken!

Here is a TA of the challenge. This is not done by BRSolver; I did all the jumps manually, so it's likely possible to shave off a little time from this. The result is a 105.56 s run. It's amazing how much time our tiny little pauses add up to cumulatively.

(BRSolver is incapable of not doing flipwalking, so a BRSolver run wouldn't be directly comparable with unassisted runs.)

is skipwalking allowed? if so, could the TAS be improved by using that?

Quote from: TheMadCharles on April 06, 2022, 05:57 PM
is skipwalking allowed? if so, could the TAS be improved by using that?

Skipwalking is NOT allowed

With 5 minutes to spare, found one extra optimisation and got it implemented as part of an imperfect but good run.

Now I pray.

Quote from: TheMadCharles on April 06, 2022, 05:57 PM
is skipwalking allowed? if so, could the TAS be improved by using that?

If I'm not mistaken Flipwalking is faster than Skipwalking, Deadcode was talking about an automatic flipwalking program (that was not used) if I understood what he wrote.

Challenge has expired! Thank you guys for giving so many attempts and so much enthusiasm!

Quote from: FoxHound on April 06, 2022, 06:33 PM
If I'm not mistaken Flipwalking is faster than Skipwalking, Deadcode was talking about an automatic flipwalking program (that was not used) if I understood what he wrote.

It is not an automatic flipwalking program. It is a Battle Race brute-force solver that tries all possible paths from the start, de-duplicating when a path is found that leads to a subpixel coordinate that was already covered by a faster path. The first full path that reaches the finish is the fastest, which it then emits as its solution.

Flipwalking is not explicitly encoded anywhere in the program. The fact that it is used is an emergent property, and this was in fact how flipwalking was discovered.

Quote from: Deadcode on January 20, 1970, 02:07 AM
Flipwalking is not explicitly encoded anywhere in the program. The fact that it is used is an emergent property, and this was in fact how flipwalking was discovered.

Wow, machine learning evolution of worms. Will we have facilitated flipwalking as scheme option one day?