jvpichowski/hey-thanks-for-the-fish

The game server for comparing various ai clients in the game "Hey, Thanks for the Fish!"

Hi there 👋

I'm Jan, a computer science master's student from Würzburg Germany.

My sweet spot is embedded development with a focus on space-related control software and computer vision. During my studies, I got the opportunity to work on three REXUS/BEXUS projects. We built an autonomous vision system on a high-altitude balloon and a novel recovery system, called Daedalus, which is dropped from sounding rockets. This is an amazing journey and I like to present our open source ground station Telestion to you, which powers these projects.

If you are lucky you will probably catch me fiddling with my passion: computer game projects. To put some more effort into this hobby I started a double degree in games engineering. After half a year of work, I proudly present our first game prototype Back in Time.

Besides those activities, I like to attend competitions and hackathons. I spend some time in internships and working in research groups at my university and CLAAS Gmbh. Currently, I am working at BII-GmbH besides my studies.

Just drop me a mail if you are interested in my projects or like to work together with me on new ideas.

P.S. I like the Inside Java Podcast. Please drop me a note, if you know a similar one for C++.

hey-thanks-for-the-fish's Issues

Initialize project structure

We will use a Gradle project with Java 16.

Implement console client

This should be a simple client which prints the current game state and gives the possibility to do a move. A move could have the following form:

1ne3

This means penguin 1 should go three steps in the direction of north east.

If the move is invalid the player should - be asked to do a different one.

The rendering of the game board should happen with ascii art. There should be floes.

Decide on an xml library

In the original server XStream is used.
It has the ability to parse data streams: https://x-stream.github.io/objectstream.html

It should be a good choice if it works out well.

Implement a simple client

The simple client should do random moves that are valid.

Implement protocol

The protocol needs to be implemented.

Here we find the most important entries: https://github.com/CAU-Kiel-Tech-Inf/backend/tree/master/sdk/src/server-api/sc/protocol

Implement not so simple client

The not so simple client should always select the move to the flow with the highest number of fishes. If there are many floes with this property a random one should be chosen.

Reverse engineering of XML communication protocol

The original game server used an XML protocol to communicate with its clients.
To keep compatibility with the 2015 submission we need to use the same protocol.
Since the documentation is gone the protocol has to be concluded from the remaining navigation code of the 2015 submission.