sstarr/battlebots

Battlebots arena for January Bath Ruby meetup

Battlebots

Setup for an AI-based tank game based on RTanque

Requirements

• Ruby 2.1 or greater
• Bundler
• Gosu dependencies
  • Mac: https://github.com/jlnr/gosu/wiki/Getting-Started-on-OS-X
  • Linux: https://github.com/jlnr/gosu/wiki/Getting-Started-on-Linux
  • Windows: https://github.com/jlnr/gosu/wiki/Getting-Started-on-Windows

Setup

$ git clone git@github.com:bathruby/battlebots.git
$ cd battlebots
$ bundle install

Vagrant

If you don't have the dependencies installed or you are running on Windows, you can use Vagrant to create a Virtual Machine with all dependencies set up automatically. Install Vagrant and Virtualbox, then run vagrant up from the root of this repository and you should see the VM start up & dependencies be downloaded and installed.

$ git clone git@github.com:bathruby/battlebots.git
$ cd battlebots
$ vagrant up

Once you see the GUI login menu appear (after a VM restart), log in with the "Vagrant" user, password "vagrant", open a terminal, cd /vagrant and start playing as below:

How to play

Generate a new bot with:

$ bundle exec rtanque new_bot my_deadly_bot

Run a test match with:

$ bundle exec rtanque start bots/my_deadly_bot sample_bots/keyboard sample_bots/camper:x2

Then fork the project on GitHub and add your bot to the bot folder and send it back as a pull request.

Check out the RTanque documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/awilliams/RTanque/ and existing bots: https://github.com/awilliams/RTanque/wiki/bot-gists