AI Challenge - Ants

[Marco Leise]

Am 21.10.2011, 06:31 Uhr, schrieb Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:

> 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

Thanks for mentioning it.