Summer AI Challenge

[bugzpodder]

a good AI should deal with a lot of situations, at least i would think so.

[Tony]

yeah... and you could determine your relative starting position and execute different strategies if you'd like 8)

[bugzpodder]

i am trying to write the snake engine and i am stuck on some problems. i want to have easy access of everyone's AI (ie store the pointers in an array) but stupid turing cant handle this. so in the end, i will probably put the whole engine into the SampleAI. but for now I'll leave it be. anyone have other bright ideas?

[Catalyst]

what type of pointers are you talking about (to store in the array)
cpp or turing?

[bugzpodder]

turing. everyone is going to have seperate classes and i am trying to find a way to combine everything.

here is the *NEW* samplesnake code, which i added one line of label 0:

and the engine, which allows you to test your own AI. its not finalized.

the simpliest way to use it is to not modify the name of the SampleSnakeAI and just modify the Think() procedure in it.

code:

look at later posts for updated code

code:

look at later posts for updated code

[Catalyst]

i like the ; and ()

u could write a generic class
and have the users classes overide the base (like virtual functions)
class using deferred

or

you could have the functions and procedure outside the program
and brought in using parameters to the class

[bugzpodder]

well these things sound promising i am going to try it in the next few days. anywayz here is a screen shot of my AI, based on the one i made in stage 2 (the 2nd zig-zag one, its my trademark ). the main part was only 10 lines

[Catalyst]

ur sample ai stops after a few turns

[Catalyst]

nvr mind, didnt know they turned on themselves

[Tony]

thats because his sample AI moves randomly... so it crashes into itself and stops

[bugzpodder]

well i hurriedly made these things so everyone could start making their AI and use the program to test it out. let me know when you've made something.

[Catalyst]

edit: see below

[bugzpodder]

dead link.

[Catalyst]

two ai's i tried out

new algo:



old algo:

[bugzpodder]

Catalyst wrote:

i like the ; and ()

u could write a generic class
and have the users classes overide the base (like virtual functions)
class using deferred

or

you could have the functions and procedure outside the program
and brought in using parameters to the class

I basically want something that without modifying my code, I could specify which AIs to use. or if thats not possible then i need to at least have the pointers/functions stored in an array so i could loop through them in my code. i am not interested in having seperate calls to each AI using their name. anyone?