diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2616a0151f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.github.amidos2006</groupId>
+    <artifactId>mario-ai-framework</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <name>Mario-AI-Framework</name>
+    <description>The Mario AI framework is a framework for using AI methods with a version of Super Mario Bros.
+    </description>
+    <url>https://github.com/amidos2006/Mario-AI-Framework</url>
+
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>Mario-AI-Framework License</name>
+            <url>https://github.com/amidos2006/Mario-AI-Framework#copyrights</url>
+            <distribution>repo</distribution>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <id>amidos2006</id>
+            <name>Ahmed Khalifa</name>
+            <email>ahmed@akhalifa.com</email>
+            <url>http://www.akhalifa.com</url>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
+
+    <scm>
+        <url>https://github.com/amidos2006/Mario-AI-Framework</url>
+        <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:amidos2006/Mario-AI-Framework.git</developerConnection>
+        <tag>HEAD</tag>
+    </scm>
+
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>levels</directory>
+            </resource>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>img</directory>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.8.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>8</source>
+                    <target>8</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+ </project>
diff --git a/src/PlayLevel.java b/src/PlayLevel.java
index 890cb3dcf7..7b85ba8e93 100644
--- a/src/PlayLevel.java
+++ b/src/PlayLevel.java
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 
@@ -23,17 +26,22 @@ public static void printResults(MarioResult result) {
     }
 
     public static String getLevel(String filepath) {
-        String content = "";
-        try {
-            content = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filepath)));
-        } catch (IOException e) {
+      try (Reader r = new InputStreamReader(PlayLevel.class.getResourceAsStream(filepath))) {
+        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+        char[] buf = new char[1024];
+        int read;
+        while ((read = r.read(buf)) != -1) {
+          writer.write(buf, 0, read);
         }
-        return content;
+        return writer.toString();
+      } catch (IOException e) {
+        return "";
+      }
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         MarioGame game = new MarioGame();
-        // printResults(game.playGame(getLevel("../levels/original/lvl-1.txt"), 200, 0));
-        printResults(game.runGame(new agents.robinBaumgarten.Agent(), getLevel("./levels/original/lvl-1.txt"), 20, 0, true));
+        // printResults(game.playGame(getLevel("/original/lvl-1.txt"), 200, 0));
+        printResults(game.runGame(new agents.robinBaumgarten.Agent(), getLevel("/original/lvl-1.txt"), 20, 0, true));
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/engine/helper/Assets.java b/src/engine/helper/Assets.java
index 7581d463f0..73d8252d03 100755
--- a/src/engine/helper/Assets.java
+++ b/src/engine/helper/Assets.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public static void init(GraphicsConfiguration gc) {
     private static Image getImage(GraphicsConfiguration gc, String imageName) throws IOException {
         BufferedImage source = null;
         try {
-            source = ImageIO.read(Assets.class.getResourceAsStream(imageName));
+            source = ImageIO.read(Assets.class.getResourceAsStream("/"+imageName));
         } catch (Exception e) {
         }