phreeza/cells

a game where players programm agents that compete for resources in a simulated environment

cells's Issues

Testbench and profiler

On HN, Cakeface raised the issue of performance.

Adding a testbench/profiler would likely be a good idea, especially if Phreeza tries out the interlingual/online/etc feature requests that appeared on HN alone.

No license indicated

How is this code licensed? This needs to get settled before the number of contributors explodes further...

IndexError when running cells.py

Seen every time I run the master at the moment:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "cells.py", line 547, in
game.tick()
File "cells.py", line 210, in tick
self.plant_population, self.energy_map)
File "cells.py", line 456, in update
pygame.transform.scale(pygame.surfarray.make_surface(numpy.array(img)),
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pygame-1.9.1release-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/pygame/surfarray.py", line 243, in make_surface
return numpysf.make_surface (array)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pygame-1.9.1release-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/pygame/_numpysurfarray.py", line 368, in make_surface
blit_array (surface, array)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pygame-1.9.1release-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/pygame/_numpysurfarray.py", line 437, in blit_array
surface.get_buffer ().write (data, 0)
IndexError: bytes to write exceed buffer size

Also seen by icefox on ubuntu karmic. Works on Fedora 12.

My pygame is 1.9.1release and numpy is 1.2.1 on the OS/X box that gets the error.
On Fedora 12, where it works, they're 1.9.1release and 1.3.0 respectively.

UPDATE: when trying to get psycho working, I ran this to force python into 32-bit mode:
defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -bool yes

it didn't work, but now I can run cells.py just fine on my OS/X box, too.

Documentation

I'm new to python and really interested in learning it with this nice game..
could you please provide any inline documentation to make it a bit easier to understand whats happening? :)

Feedback on action result

Some kind of feedback for a cell when its action has failed.

Add Terrain to WorldView

WorldView should contain information about the elevation around the Agent.

Psyco required

Psyco isn't really needed for the game. It helps a bunch I'm sure, but my computer runs fine without it.

Replace

"
try:
import psyco
psyco.full()
finally:
pass
"

with

"
try:
import psyco
psyco.full()

except (ImportError):
pass
finally:
pass
"

Ladder Server?

Does anyone have a server he would like to volunteer for hosting the ladder?

Right now I just want to get this launched asap, probably with manual vetting of the minds before inserting them into the ladder, and a simple static HTML file with the current scores generated by a future version of the tournament.py script.

Parameters

I'd like to request some parameters for start (later for an UI? ;), like

• pixel resolution
• energy (global/local on plants)
• amount of plants
• terrain (later ;)

.. any more ideas? :)

Game Statistics

Generate a couple of statistics about the game and the teams. Overall deaths, causes of death, energy collected, average lifetime, etc.

I seem to get this error with all the different minds

AttributeError: Agent instance has no attribute 'is_loaded'

mind1.py, line 37, in act

I got an IndexError, but it's hard to reproduce

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "cells.py", line 471, in
game = Game()
File "cells.py", line 113, in init
self.agent_map.insert(self.agent_population)
File "cells.py", line 301, in insert
self.set(o.x, o.y, o)
File "cells.py", line 245, in set
self.values[x,y] = val
IndexError: index (300) out of range (0<=index<300) in dimension 1

Have to use force quit on Ubuntu

I'm running it on Ubuntu 9.10 and anytime I run it I have to use force quit to kill it. It goes nicely, but it doesn't respond to the close button or Alt+F4.

SyntaxError reading commandline arguments

I get this error, I suspect I don't have everything set up correctly.

File "C:\Python31\cells\phreeza-cells-2b942c0\cells.py", line 49 print 'Got error: %s' % e ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Improve and expand keyboard input

Need to make keyboard input more responsive, and add more of it, for example toggle energy map and unit count.

show amount of agents graphically

as an addon to the UI, maybe display a graph that ticks along to see the increasing/decreasing of a party..

Throws exception on first run

You need these two lines at line 61 and 62:

    minds_str = str(config.get('minds', 'minds'))
    mind_list = [get_mind(n) for n in minds_str.split(',')]

Otherwise, you get an exception when the default.cfg is missing. Here's the exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "cells.py", line 526, in
main()
File "cells.py", line 70, in main
print mind_list
NameError: global name 'mind_list' is not defined

Terrain visibility

Currently the terrain isn't visible to the agents. How about WorldView.get_terrain() ?

Fractal Terrain Generation

I hope together with the terrain in worldview, this will encourage minds to make use of the terrain molding capabilities.

http://www.gameprogrammer.com/fractal.html#diamond

The algorithm is quite simple.

Game Logs

For the ladder server, it would be nice to be able to record and play back games.

Possible memory leak??

I'm not really sure, but the fps tanks once the game picks up.

Getting started/install steps required

A section in the Wiki for install/setup would be good.