Mario Kart Is Hard

Mario Kart Is Hard

Nintendo's Mario Kart is perhaps the most popular racing video game franchise. Players race alone or against opponents to finish in the fastest time possible. Players can also use items to attack and defend from other racers. We prove two hardness results for generalized Mario Kart: deciding wh...

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Main Authors: Waingarten, Erik (Author), Bosboom, Jeffrey William (Contributor), Demaine, Erik D (Contributor), Hesterberg, Adam Classen (Contributor), Lynch, Jayson R. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing, 2017-09-18T18:06:49Z.
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Summary:Nintendo's Mario Kart is perhaps the most popular racing video game franchise. Players race alone or against opponents to finish in the fastest time possible. Players can also use items to attack and defend from other racers. We prove two hardness results for generalized Mario Kart: deciding whether a driver can finish a course alone in some given time is NP-hard, and deciding whether a player can beat an opponent in a race is PSPACE-hard.

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