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Original post by DuncanBojangles One quick question, though. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being a total newbie to programming in general and 10 a godlike professional AI programmer, where would the average difficulty of this contest lie? What prerequisites are necessary to be able to program a bot. Thanks for reading through my lengthy post.
I was wondering this as well. Will it be easy enough to use, so that a wide variety can enter (not necessarily winning, but easy enough to "play"?) Are there any topics we should read up on, that might help with the programming aspect?
sounds kinda like this http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html
i used to toy with this a lot, great time killer. (oddly addictive)
how much can a bot execute per cycle? will it be real time, where it''s up to you and the more you execute, the more time your bot needs to react, or is there a preset limit, where botx gets a call from the app, sends out all it''s "move:" and "fire" commands to the app, then it goes to boty
sounds fun, if i have time ill make sure to submit an entry
umm... that is pretty much it, was kinda wondering on how some physics issues would resolve: momentum (more weight = less acceleration but greater momentum at similar velocities?), bouncing off of barriers (and other bots), ability to aquire angular momentum, etc...
just thought those might be some cool things to look into.
also, what about the ability to play short "taunt" audio files (like descent 3, the greatest game ever)?
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Original post by Raptor85 ... will it be real time, where it''s up to you and the more you execute, the more time your bot needs to react, ...
Ya know... This would be THE ultimate solution to the entire "the bot has to be fast enough" problem! If your bot is run in a thread with a limited amount of CPU time, the programmer doesn''t have to worry about exceeding any limits... the bot will just react sluggish, without slowing down the game or the other bot... so the programmer has a tradeoff between reaction speed, and tactical movement... *looks up at the Staff with big puppy eyes*
do the bots have a warmup-time, to examine the map and gather some informations? and do we get an email (newsletter) when the contest starts? i dont want to look in the contest area and there''s one day left...
what about the aiming, the bot is fixed in y-direction(top down) !? but if u have a random ground it could happen that the enemy bot is to high to be hit?! slowdonw on hill climbind?
do weapons shoot/go(bullet will be plazed behind the wall if the gun is inside) through walls/obstacle''s etc?
do we have some gfx @ matchtime, and is it a sort of spectator or can we see how our and the enemy bot acts (Firstperson)?
what are the requirements to join the play-for-prize cathegory (100posts on gdnet? ai reaction time under 10ms?)???
Sounds good, but whats the required skill level for entry? I just wanna try it out, I''ve always been interested in AI and such. Is simple knowledge of C++ going to be enough?
Anyways, sweet idea. Cant wait to mess around with it.
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Read the official page (link is in the original post). There is also a beginner cup. The beginner cup requires no skill level at all, but you can also win no prices. If you enter the pro-cup without much skill, I don''t think it matters either. You will just not get very far.
