AI Challenge - Ants

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, October 21, 2011 06:22:43 Marco Leise wrote:
> Hi! I've been part of the team behind http://aichallenge.org/. We just
> started our next challenge about 30 minutes ago.
> This will be the first time that DMD 2.054 is supported there and since
> I've been posting on this NG a few times I though it would be a good place
> to make an announcement.
> 
> So here is the deal: You write a program that controls a population of
> ants. You get a number of ant hills and explore the map with your ant
> horde looking for food to produce more ants and enemy ant hills that you
> can raze for points.
> There is fog-of-war and obstacles. Moving ants in groups gives them better
> chances to survive by outnumbering enemies. The map is on a grid and ants
> wrap around if they move over the edges. A match usually has between 2-8
> players and is turn based. The players make their moves simultaneously
> within a time window of 500ms. Oh yeah and it is free to sign up and
> requires no previous knowledge in AI programming.
> 
> Feel free to ask questions on the IRC channel #aichallenge on Freenode.

Sounds cool, but there's actually a list specifically for announcements: 
digitalmars-d-announce. http://www.digitalmars.com/NewsGroup.html

- Jonathan M Davis