Ulukai on 17/9/2010 at 14:34
Those of you who like to program might be interested to hear that Google's AI challenge this year is to implement a bot that plays a version of (
http://www.galcon.com/) Galcon called Planet Wars. You can give the flash version a go (
http://www.galcon.com/flash) here if you don't know what Galcon is.
Download a starter package in Java, C++, C#, or Python. Once you've played around with one you'll realise you can write your AI in just about whatever you like as long as you adhere to the game parsing format, although you will need Java installed to test your compiled bot locally.
I'm registered as (
http://ai-contest.com/profile.php?user_id=8075) CaptainGarth. And yay, my latest AI revision just lost its first game. (Only games played by your current AI revision are listed, and are not scored cumulatively with any old versions you might have submitted.)
(
http://ai-contest.com/index.php) Compilers at dawn, gentlemen.
