This year we will be "running" two distinct but related contests. We will announce/show the results at the banquet.

The attached files are the basis for the contests.

Contest #1 -- "Risk" playing Bot

Create a robot to play a "Risk" like game using SampleBot.tcl as a starting point.

Robots will play a double round robin. Starting at "high noon" on Wednesday. In each match a robot will be awarded points as follows:

• 0 points -- lost
• 1 point -- tie
• 2 points -- win

Winner on pure points.

Contest #2 -- Display of BotGame

Write a program to display the "log" of a game (you can modify the RunGame.tcl to output whatever you want as a log) either via Tk or HTML/JavaScript -- the "driver" has to be Tcl based. See the WorldMap files.

Winner(s) to be judged by artistic merit (whatever that means).

To run:

tclsh8.6 RunGame.tcl gameName gameDir mapSpec bot_1_name bot_1_path
bot_2_name bot_2_path

Where:

gameName - name of the game
gameDir - directory game files are in
mapSpec - map specification file (i.e. WorldMap.tcl)
bot_1_name - name of bot #1
bot_1_path - command to launch bot #1
bot_2_name - name of bot #2
bot_2_path - command to launch bot #2

This is all based on http://theaigames.com/competitions/warlight-ai-challenge

Now contains all the files we got from Gerald, with some changes, namely

• Fixed a few typos in the sample bot and in the engine
• Refactored the engine internally a bit
• Gave the engine a higher-level log written to stderr.
• An example of this log is in the repository
• The log should be Tcl-readable (lines of Tcl lists)
• This should be a good starting point for visualization/replay of a game.
• Added two manager scripts, Shootout and Tournament.
• The shootout takes two bots, possibly the same and runs them through a series of independent matches (50 by default) and accumulates the results. This should allow you to judge relative strength better.
• The tournament takes a directory of bots and runs them against each other per the rules Gerald listed in his initial mail.
• Both scripts save the lower- and higher-level log in the logs/ subdir of the world directory they operate in. For reviewing things, and also as a source of game logs for visualization.
• Call either script without arguments to see the usage information.

All in all having these infrastructure script should allow us to focus on writing a bot, and not on writing helper scripts.

• Access without login, and anon access have standard permissions.
• So, everybody should be able to clone.
• Anon login can get zip/tar balls from a revision.