>The search space of possible Donkey Kong games, while finite, is almost unfathomably large...I imagine this would rack up scores far higher than any human realistically could--perhaps 2,000,000 or more.
Do you really think so? That they are still as far as only about 50% of a potential maximum? Personally I would IMAGINE (I can only imagine since I've never watched a record setting DK and it's techniques, or observed their loss-of-opportunity moments despite setting a record) that the top players are already maximizing every potential opportunity to control and group barrels, maximizing hammer-use and taking advantage of known exploits to achieve all they can... taking any risk necessary to achieve a top score. It's not like they are avoiding risk since the consequence is simply a restart. Unlike pacman, which has a defined maximum score... dk has SOME randomness to it due to barrel behavior and grouping... but still... at some point there is a maximum number of barrels in the time allotted... a maximum number of opportunities to group the barrels... and a maximum amount of time and levels. To come up with a theoretical maximum would be a matter of counting how many barrels are possible in the time on each level... assume the maximum score is produced by every barrel, and derive a theoritical maximum from that. Someone here must care enough about DK to crunch that basic formula out. 
You may be right... but seems to me, they are already approaching that asymtotic maximum potential score.
Edited by Gatinho (09/21/10 05:40 AM)
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