Software for IPSJ International AI Programming Contest

SamurAI Coding 2019-20

Documents

Game Rules

The rules of the game SamurAI Dig Here can found in the following files.

• English version: documents/rules.html
• Japanese version: documents/rules-jp.html

Game Manager

The manuals for the game manager are in the following files.

• English version: documents/manager.html
• Japanese version: documents/manager-jp.html

Web Page

The manuals for the game log visualizer web page are in the following files.

• English version: documents/help.html
• Japanese version: documents/help-jp.html

Tactics

Some potential game tactics are suggested in the following files.

• English version: documents/tactics.html
• Japanese version: documents/tactics-jp.html

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• C++ development environment (compiler and standard libraries for c++14 or later)

• A web browser

  A web browser is required for viewing the documents, visualizing replays of games, and also for editing game field configurations. The web page for the game is known to work on the following systems and browsers. All of them are 64 bit versions.

  • Windows: Edge (44.18362.387.0), Chrome (77.0.3865.120), Firefox (69.0.3)
  • MacOS: Safari (13.0.2), Chrome (77.0.3865.120), Firefox (69.0.3)
  • Ubuntu: Chrome (77.0.3865.90), Firefox (69.0.2), Opera (64.0.3417.61)

Installing

Issue the following in the top-level directory.

$ make all

This will make the following software.

• manager/manager Game management system
• players/simplePlayer A simple sample player AI
• players/randomPlayer A player with random plays
• players/timeoutPlayer A player that sometimes falls asleep

Testing

Test Run

Issue the following in the top-level directory.

$ make testrun

This will play a game between two simple players and output a log in the file samples/testout.dighere.

Viewing the Result

Open the web page webpage/dighere.html with a web browser. Clicking the , a file selection dialog will pop up. Select the game log samples/testout.dighere, to load it. You can visualize the recorded game by clicking the play button on screen top.

The manual for using the web page can be visited by clicking the button with a question mark icon on top right of the page.

Authors

• Takashi Chikayama - Initial version

License

This software is distributed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

A part of the project (picojson) is licenced by Cybozu Labs, Inc. and Kazuho Oku. See manager/picojson.h for details.

Acknowledgments

Members of the Programming Contest Committee of Information Processing Society of Japan helped designing the game and testing the system, whose names are listed below.

• Committee Members: Tasuku Hiraishi (Director), Hironori Washizaki (Executive Advisor), Takashi Chikayama, Shingo Takada, Yuki Kobayashi Kazunori Sakamoto, Tetsuro Tanaka, Makoto Miwa, Kenta Cho, Tsutomu Terada, Kiyokuni Kawachiya, Noriko Fukasawa, Daisaku Yokoyama