2018assignment3 VS starter-snake-python

I have a little self-written version I use as an assignment for Scala students at UNE (Aus).

At the moment, using classic actors but it'll probably shift to typed actors next time around.

https://github.com/UNEcosc250/2018assignment3

I also put in a bit about "tankfighting with insults" a la Monkey Island, to try to give a little exercise in streams.

(Relatively safe to link because I'll be updating it next year anyway)

Some years ago, a colleague and I ran a software studio course at UQ where we used the original Robocode codebase as the starter project, and had teams adding action-replay, Call of Duty style killstreak rewards and all sorts of other odd features.

(Though the pain of the original Robocode Java codebase was there was a 1,000 line long class that was so central to everthing that by the time students were done with it, it was a 3,000 line class. Our hopes of "prime target for students to refactor" were thwarted by "turns out, students don't do that".)

You could use a short response timeout (<1s) to make it impractical for human players to participate - for instance, that's what Battlesnake does (https://play.battlesnake.com/). Players provide an endpoint that follows the required API and their code never leaves their machines.

https://pokeapi.co/ o https://play.battlesnake.com/

Battlesnake is a multiplayer game where a small server you write plays a survival-style snake game paired with snakes implemented by others.

Also for fun / to answer the passion part: how far can you get in https://warriorjs.com/ or https://play.battlesnake.com/ :) It's getting more advanced than you'd think

Create an account at play.battlesnake.com.

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