Planet Wars Starter Package

Note: This challenge has been over for almost a decade; why are you still looking at it?

This repository contains a round-up of all you need to start the 2010 Google AI Challenge Planet Wars (hereinafter Planet Wars Challenge) originally run by the University of Waterloo.

Getting Started

Under starterbots/ are slimmed down versions of the official starter packages for C++, C#, Java and Python.

Pick your language of choice and copy the contents to the root folder. What you have is a bot with a very basic strategy. Look at the file MyBot.* (different file extensions depending on programming language) to understand the basic strategy of the bot and how communication with the game engine works.

For how the game works, look at the official specifications of the game.

Playing Games

Included in this starter package are two game playing scripts.

• play.py for playing an individual game from a randomly generated map and viewing it.
• play_multiple.py for playing multiple games on multiple randomly generated maps.

Note on Licensing

• The files in example_bots/, maps/, starterbots/ and tools/ and the file SPECIFICATION.md were originally released under the Apache License Version 2.0 for the Planet Wars Challenge.
• The files in starterbots/python_starterbot/ have been edited.
• The files in visualizer/ are from the Planet Wars Challenge (released under the Apache License Version 2.0) and have been edited.
• The file visualizer/css/Hyades.jpg is released under the Attribution-ShareAlike Version 2.5 Generic License.
• The remainder of the files are released under the GNU General Public License Version 3.