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Vindinium: An artificial intelligence programming challenge

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Re: Vindinium: An artificial intelligence programming challenge

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Post by codezero »

jbarrow wrote: post #3

If you're interested in this kind of thing and want a gentle introduction, I highly recommend CodeCombat [1], which offers both a single player version for learning the system and a multiplayer version for writing AI code. [1] http://codecombat.com

I might have accidentally downvoted your comment, sorry about that :(

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Post by roryokane »

I saw this a while ago and thought that I would love to try playing this game as a human, so I could explore different strategies, or just have fun. Well, that is finally possible.

I just created LiveHumanBot – a “bot” that really just lets you, a human, type in directions to control your character. Here is its code, with instructions: https://github.com/roryokane/vindinium-live-human-bot. I fare pretty well against other bots: http://vindinium.org/ai/p20qptiv.

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Post by kosinus »

Oh, neat to see this here! This was part of a local competition I participated in several months ago. Nice to see it has improved quite a bit since.

I'm far from knowledgable on AI stuff, but I found this a great way to learn about some very basics, like pathfinding.

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Post by cheepin »

vutekst wrote: post #5

Can anyone comment on general strategies that would be applicable to this game? Has anyone tried some kind of crazy machine learning stuff, or is it dominated by relatively simple algorithms?

From observation, the beer thing's healing looks ridiculously overpowered, to the point where you probably can't fight someone near one

Re: Vindinium: An artificial intelligence programming challenge

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Post by Cerium »

vutekst wrote: post #5

Can anyone comment on general strategies that would be applicable to this game? Has anyone tried some kind of crazy machine learning stuff, or is it dominated by relatively simple algorithms?

Best strategy I've seen from watching is to gain mines until you have a sizable portion, stay adjacent to a beer until you see someone you can kill, kill them, then go straight for a beer. If you are constantly using the beer you become invincible for only 2 gold per turn.

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Post by ClayFerguson »

Seems like something that Google or Microsoft would ask as an interview question. You have all day to complete it, on your laptop, but once done, no matter how much code it is, they want it transcribed from your computer onto a physical white-board, because the only thing they know how to read is white-boards. If you tell them they are crazy and try to end the interview right then and there, you are hired, because you have guts, and you know what can and cannot be done, and will not waste your time with jerks.
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