Project Z is a system for testing agent-based goal seeking strategies in a simple and intuitive game world.

Project Z's main components:

• ProblemDescription - an intro to the problem for players that describes the game world, the space of agent moves, and provides a brief implementation language agnostic game walk-through.
• SampleServer - an implementation fo the server side of both the WorldStateProtocol and the ActorProtocol that can be used for testing by participants as well as evaluation by event organizers
• DevKit packages - development materials that abstract away dealing with client-server communications allowing for a lower barrier-to-entry for novice participants. Kits also contain sample agent implementations for moving randomly (ExampleRandomAgentOutput) and simple straight-line goal seeking (ExampleSmartAgentOutput). Currently available for: C with libc, Java, Ruby, Perl, and Python. For more detail see LanguageSupport.
• FancyDisplay - a sample display implementation for more audience-driven events designed to maximize cuteness. uses Danc's Miraculously Flexible Game Prototyping Tiles art by Daniel Cook (Lostgarden.com)
• JoystickAgent - a sample agent that allows for one of the game participants to be controlled by a human with a game input pad
• SubmissionController - a sample back-end submission handler that runs agents against each other and reports results.

== License ==

Code under GNU GPL v3

Content under CC-BY 3.0