[Haskell-cafe] Haskell shootout game

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

a similar variation of the idea can be found on 
http://infon.dividuum.de
A nice feature o this game is that you can upload the (lua) code while
the game is running, so the rounds tend to be quite long (~1h maybe) and
the people can adjust their AI constantly.

It was very popular at the last two GPN conferences in Karlsruhe.

Greetings,
Joachim


Am Montag, den 16.07.2007, 11:31 -0400 schrieb Re, Joseph (IT):
> Interestingly enough, we're doing something very similar for ACM at UIUC's
> 2007 MechMania XIII contest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechmania), an
> AI competition hosted during our annual Reflections Projections
> conference.
>  
>   I can't release too many details until the day of the contest (Oct
> 13), but it's tactical, grid based combat game where you get one day to
> write an AI (while testing in a pre-arena of sorts that is rendered to a
> video wall in the middle of the conference building's atrium) and then
> the next morning we run a (usually double elimination) tournament and
> display all the simulations on a giant projector.  You can look at
> screenshots / client API docs from 2006 as an example until we post the
> details the night of the contest.
>  
>   After the contest we post results, (hopefully) clean up the code, and
> release it for people to play with.  We're not professionals, nor do we
> mainly write games, but it should be clean enough for someone to modify
> and play around with.
>  
>    I guess it goes without saying that you can actually enter the
> contest proper by coming to the conference if you happen to live in the
> middle of nowhere (Champaign-Urbana, IL USA).  Registration will be up
> (www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/) towards the end of summer.
> 
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> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:47 PM
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> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell shootout game
> 
> 
> Had an idea: a real shootout game for Haskell.
> 
> The arena itself comprises:
> - a 2d grid, of a certain size (or maybe variable size) 
> - each grid cell can be a wall, or one of the opponents
> - the boundaries of the grid are walls
> - random blocks of wall are placed around the grid
> 
> This can run on a hosted webserver probably, because each match is part
> of a webpage request, and lasts a maximum of about a second, so shouldnt
> be terminated prematurely by cpu-monitoring scripts.
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