Halite AI Bot: Lord of the Stump
Lord of the Stump is an AI swarm bot that was used in the AI Challenge at Halite.io. The objective is to battle other AIs and the winner is raised up in the ranks. When I was developing this final iteration. I was ranked ~55 out of 1100 people. A couple months later, when the competition concluded, Lord of the Stump was still rank 145. See gif below for an example game feature this bot.
Submitted by: Graham Thomas
Time spent: 32 hours spent in total
Video Walkthrough
Here's gameplay from the Halite tournament:
GIF created with LiceCap.
Notes
Props to the Halite team who put this on. I really enjoyed it.
When developing the AI, if must only issue commands to each block based on the information it has. Unless you program it, you cannot simply tell all the blocks to move a certain way. Each block must be controlled individually.
License
Copyright [2017] Graham Thomas
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