Connect N Player Template

Primary Goal

Publish an implementation of Player to artifactory. Become familiar with software workflows and artifact deployment.

Secondary Goal

Produce a champion connect N AI.

Steps

Fork this repo into a personal group on gitlab.io
Change the firstname and surname properties in the pom.xml to your name
Move the class NameAI from the com.thg.accelerator21.connectn.ai.name package to the com.thg.accelerator21.connectn.ai.firstnamesurname package
Rename the NameAI class to whatever you would like to call your AI. Bonus credit for a funny name.
Implement your Connect N AI logic inside makeMove

Rules

For the competition, we will set the width of the board to 10, height to 8, and n to 4. In the case of a draw between two ais, we will change n to 3, so make sure you don't hard-code these parameters in your code (get them from board.getGameConfig())
Feel free to copy/improve the analysis code here, although if you do copy it, make sure you change the package so it doesn't conflict with the fully qualified class name in connect n.
Your solution must use less than 2G of Heap, and terminate within 10 seconds on whichever machine is executing it. Your jar should be no larger than 10MB.
You may calculate a move database, which can be stored inside your jar. However, no calls to internet services are allowed.
If your AI makes a foul move or violates the performance constraints above, it will forfeit the game.

Making your submission

Once you're ready to submit your entry:

Change the version in the pom.xml from x-SNAPSHOT to x (e.g. x=1.0)
Run the command mvn deploy
Check that the artifact appears in artifactory
- If it isn't there, or your deploy command fails, your maven environment isn't set up correctly. Speak to Shaun.
Push your code to git to keep a record of the source code for version x
In your pom.xml, increment x and add -SNAPSHOT at the end (e.g. go from 1.0 to 1.1-SNAPSHOT) to get ready for the next version
Update this spreadsheet with this version

Timelines

If your solution is in artifactory and the spreadsheet by , your solution will be entered in the contest. Later submissions may also be included, but this will be on a best-effort basis.