Fall fest organization discussion

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Organization

• who is the fall fest organizer focal point to contact in case there are issues with equipment, space etc.
• what is the space allocated for our organization , how do we find it?
  • enough space for computers / participants?
  • since when can we be there? (we may need time to prepare the equiment etc.)
• is there any equipment allocated? (computers on which users will develop ants) ,
  • where to get them?
  • will they be pre-installed?
  • can we configure them? (will we need to?)

Propagation

• plan?

Recruitment what to do with potential candidates -

• I suppose we get their info during registration
• what information can we get from them? name, surname, phone no., mail,
• what contact for IBM can we give them in case they ask for one?

Technical realization / organization users will develop their ants , how do we

• collect
• review
• integrate -- the implementations?

what do we do in case of compilation / runtime errors?

• do we disqualify them, or do we give participants a chance to fix them?
• e.g. we could have a few testing rounds for each implementation and if there are issues, give them a chance to fix it,
• (run a singleplayer once for each code)
• before we start qualification / tournament

what do we have them implement?

• behavior for workers
• behavior for warriors? (how do you do that?)
• ant spawn logic? (probably not)

rules that we have to make clear to participants

• ants have vision 1 tile around themselves + home hill

• ants can have memory

• ants can move up to 1 tile per turn

• game has X turns

• worker ant that moves to a tile with food picks up food automatically

• worker ant has to move the food back to its anthill to gain score

• ant can carry up to 1 food at a time

• warrior cannot pickup food

• in case of draw - home team wins by default

• new ants spawn automatically after delivering X food (worker or warrior are generated with a certain probability)

• warriors / workers mechanics? (consider dropping warriors in case their AI cannot be reliably input)

• turn order - players move sequentially

• food spawning - there are no restrictions as to where can food be spawned

• playing field has fixed size, rectangle of size 40 / 20

  • no obstacles
  • borders - if you move to them, nothing happens, action is ignored
  • hills are spawned on the borders against each other

• Sample implementation

• priority implementation parts to explain:

  • AbstractAnt
  • Direction
  • Direction.get(Point,Point)
  • vision.look
  • Point
  • ObjectType

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arrival at 13:00 focals - Marian Schwarz, Pavol Lim, Katka Mocanikova 4 + 2 computers equipment to be picked up by Tibor and moved over place on site

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On site

Vlado Robo H Robo S Tibor S Gabo Sc