A turn based tank game for Python bots
This is the configuration for development. Make sure you have a virtualenv. You need to do the following:
- Install the dependencies running
pip install -r requirements.txt - Create the database running
python manage.py migrate - Create an admin user with
python manage.py createsuperuser - We need Bower intalled, if we have it we can run this:
python manage.py bower install - Run the development server
python manage.py runserver - Open the browser at
http://127.0.0.1:8000/
##Intall Bower##
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Fedora
sudo yum install npm sudo npm install -g bower
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Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install npm sudo npm install -g bower
In Ubuntu 14.04 we need do this
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
The game is simple, you will program a tank-bot that should destroy the oponent's tank. The game is by turns, and in each turn the tank has three possible actions to take:
- Shoot: The tank can fire a projectile against its enemy target. That will cause two possible results:
- The projectile hits the enemy, reducing its life by a certain amount.
- The projectile misses it and nothing happens.
- Move: The tank can move forward or back, but only one step per turn.
- Do Nothing: Pretty self explanatory. Nothing happens here.
The game ends when one of the tanks is destroyed, i.e: its life reaches 0 points; or when 100 turns are played, in which case the winning tank is the one which has more lives at that moment.
The user must define a class called Bot that implements the method evaluate_turn, which receives the following parameters:
feedback: The result of the previous turn. For instance, the shoot action 'SUCESS' is returned if the enemy is hit, and 'FAILED' otherwise.life: Current tank life. A number between 0-100.
Taking this game status as an input, the method should evaluate programmatically the best strategy for the tank; and then return a dictionary indicating what the tank will do in its turn. For this, the player has a few options:
- Move: Return a dictionary like this
{'ACTION': 'MOVE', 'WHERE': 1}, where 1 is for moving forward and -1 is for moving backwards. - Shoot: Return a dictionary like this
{'ACTION': 'SHOOT', 'ANGLE': 35, 'VEL': 100}where ANGLE values must be between 0 and 89 and VEL must be between 0 and 100. - Stay: Player decides not doing anything, so it returns an empty dictionary.
Code used to implement evaluate_turn must run in PyPy. For security reasons, this code runs in a PyPy Sandbox, so keep in mind that modules like random or time are not available, so you must figure out how to live with that :P
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