Welcome to the C1 Terminal Starter Kit! The repository contains a collection of scripts and language-specific starter algos, to help you start your journey to develop the ultimate algo.
For more details about competitions and the game itself please check out our main site.
We recommend you familiarize yourself with the game and its strategic elements, by playing manually, before you start your algo. Check out the playground.
To test your algo locally, you should use the new test_algo_[OS] scripts in the scripts folder. Details on its use is documented in the README.md file in the scripts folder. Using this script and the website features are enough for most users to play the game.
For documentation on the all official algos check out the doc server. This site also details useful configuration settings, and advanced details on the input formatting under "Json Format".
For advanced users you can install java and run the game engine locally, however its recommended to use the website for proper analysis as it has visualization features to help you understand. Java 10 or above is required: Java Development Kit 10 or above, if you cannot download java 10 just download the most recent java version.
If you are running Windows, you will need Windows PowerShell installed. This comes pre-installed on Windows 10. Some windows users might need to run the following PowerShell commands in adminstrator mode (right-click the PowerShell icon, and click "run as administrator"):
`Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted`
If this doesn't work try this:
`Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted CurrentUser`
If that still doesn't work, try these below:
`Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass`
`Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned`
And don't forget to run the PowerShell as admin.
Zip your algo with the platform-appropriate zipalgo binary, found in the scripts directory. This
will generate a deflated zip archive, details are provided in the documentation in the scripts directory.
For example, you can run:
./scripts/zipalgo_mac python-algo my-python-algo.zip
For detailed troubleshooting help related to both website problems and local development check out the troubleshooting section.
Python algos require Python 3 to run. If you are running Unix (Mac OS or Linux), the command python3 must run on
Bash or Terminal. If you are running Windows, the command py -3 must run on PowerShell.
Java algos require the Java Development Kit. Java algos also require [Gradle] (https://gradle.org/install/) for compilation.
To run your algo locally or on our servers, or to enroll your algo in a competition, please see the documentation for the Terminal command line interface in the scripts directory