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Offline Shasta

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« on: November 30, 2009, 10:59:54 PM »
I thought some of you guys might be interested in this: MIT's BattleCode. It is a AI competition in the manner of a RTS, however each unit functions autonomously, so pretty much like DB. The AI is programmed in Java. The API Release/Competition start is January 1st.

If people are interested we could put together a Darwinbots team.
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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 01:07:18 AM »
Yeah, looks like fun.  Is anyone a student at MIT or one of the other supported schools?
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 02:29:51 PM »
Ill join, need to learn Java anyways, I know C++, but I want to learn something better.
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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2009, 02:35:35 PM »
I'm interested.

Not part of one of the supported schools.

Also got this error when I try fast reply. Let see if I do a normal reply.
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2009, 03:19:35 PM »
If I have to actually travel to MIT, (even though I would love it) I cannot, sadly, go because I am only 16.

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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2009, 04:10:28 PM »
I think it's done virtually so no travel required.
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« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2009, 04:39:55 PM »
Quote from: triclops200
Ill join, need to learn Java anyways, I know C++, but I want to learn something better.

Personaly wouldn't say Java is "better" than C++. I guess it's something a lot of people have been debating for a long time, but personaly I prefer C++ over Java. (Although garbage collection is nice, I always forget to add something to the destructor )
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« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2009, 05:38:21 PM »
Something to note is that the maximum team size is 4, so if more people wish to do this we may have to split into a couple of teams, that is if you want to work as a team.
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« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2009, 12:58:17 PM »
Well I think working as a team is part of the experience, and more fun. Also most people here probably don't go to one of the registered schools, so the only way to participate is being on a team with someone able to join...

In case people wan't to practice, I noticed the game looked somewhat like one I encountered before :

http://apocalyx.sourceforge.net/guntactyx/


As I recall the language is C++, and it looks similar to the screen on the site. Not as fun as DB though  And their leagues have a 32 kb limit to the code submitted, which can be a real pain since the language invites you to do proper code structure and then you're forced to destroy it all later on when you need space. (You can choose to increase the cap though, but then it no longer qualifies for the leagues.)
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« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2009, 02:32:59 PM »
Woo Hoo! Partially fluent in Java now... I'm good to go.
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2010, 09:25:38 PM »
Alright, so if we want to do this, the software/specs went live today.
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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2010, 12:54:15 AM »
I'm game but I'm a bit busy to organize everything.
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2010, 03:17:26 PM »
I am interested in this but I am quite new to most codes but I have never tried javascript
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« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2010, 01:40:51 PM »
It's java not javascript.

I'll be looking at it shortly. Not exactly an expert on coding either.
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« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2010, 01:54:07 PM »
I understand, I have never really tried java either. I better get started then
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