Greetings!
We are proud to invite you to Botomania 2022 as a part of Threads, Felicity IIIT Hyderabad! Botomania 2022 is 2-day long event where you'll write programs (bots) to play a two-player board game. The exact rules of the game will be revealed at the start of the contest.
Your bot will go against bots written by other contestants. Don't worry if your bot isn't perfect, it can win as long as it can beat the other contestants' bot! You'll have 48 hours to make your bot, and improve upon it throughout the period of the event.
You can visualize the games that your bot is playing on our website and analyze them to improve your bot! All the bots will compete against each other after the 48 hours in a final tournament where the strongest bot shall prevail!
This is an individual event and only Python submissions will be supported. Top participants get prizes worth 13K INR and a chance to interact with EA senior developers!
Register at our website and then join our Discord Server for further updates.
Following is a small glimpse of the kind of game you'll be playing. (Click here to play the GIF!)
May the bots be ever in your favour!
Cheers, Botomania Team
Auto comment: topic has been updated by rahulgoel (previous revision, new revision, compare).
How exactly is the bot supposed to work? Will it be something like an interactive problem?
Yeah, It'll be something like that. We will give you a Python boilerplate which takes in the input game state in the form of a Python Dictionary.
The game state contains the details about the current situation on the board game. Your task is to use this information about the state to make a valid move. We then process the move that you return to us, update the game state, and then ask your opponent's program to make the move. This process continues.
We will release the exact details at the beginning of the event i.e. 12 PM IST on 25th March.
Oh ok, thanks for the clarification. Sounds fun!
The event has begun! We also made our game board more snazzier! You can find it here: imgur!