materol/ts-dynamite

TypeScript Dynamite

Background

You are probably familiar with the game Rock-Paper-Scissors. This variant adds two new elements - Dynamite and Water Balloon. The full rules can be found at https://dynamite.softwire.com.

Your Task

Your job is to build an agent and pit it against your fellow interns (as well as a few other simple bots that I'll add into the mix)!

It's possible to get something working very quickly - there are already a few very simple bots in this repo - but the possibilities for making your agent more sophisticated and complex are endless!

Getting Started

1. Read the rules at https://dynamite.softwire.com.
2. Fork this repo and open it in VS Code
3. Install the dependencies with npm install
4. Check that everything is working ok.

Powershell:

.\battle.ps1 rockBot paperBot

Bash:

sh battle.sh rockBot paperBot

You should see the following output with no error messages:

Game 1 results:
Winner: p2
Score: 0 - 1000
Reason: score

5. Write your own bot! You can add a new bot in the src/bots/ directory.

Testing Your Bot Locally

You can run your bot(s) against any other bot you have locally using the following command:

Powershell:

.\battle.ps1 playerOneBot playerTwoBot

Bash:

sh battle.sh playerOneBot playerTwoBot

Testing Your Bot Remotely

You can upload your bot to https://dynamite.softwire.com to play against bots that other people have previosuly created.

Important: you will need to upload the transpiled JavaScript file for your bot, not the TypeScript file that you developed. This can be found at dist/bots/botName.js after running npm run convert.

Tournament Ready

Towards the end of this exercise, I will create a tournament for everyone's bots (and a few additional simple bots of my own). You will be able to enter you bot into the tournament on the Dynamite website.

A few notes to make this as fun as possible:

• Make sure you count your dynamite! There is nothing worse than losing a game at the last minute by attempting to use too much.
• The same instance of your class is used for all rounds of a match, so you can store any state you wish to keep track of independently of the Gamestate.
• Stay in the spirit of the game - e.g. don't try and use reflection to interfere with the game runner or opposing bots.