public/subjects/tron/tron.en.md

tron

Objectives

In this project you will have to create your own Tron AI snake

Getting started

You will need to create a public repository with the name tron. Next you need to create a file named ai.js. It must respect the instructions given

Controls

• right arrow plays one moves frontwards
• left arrow plays one moves backwards
• You can use the scroll to do the same thing as above
• shift will make it fast

Rules

• Your Ai has to move every turn (it can not stay still)
• Every time the Ai moves somewhere the Ai leaves a color trail.
• the Ai can only move to a blank tile.
• the Ai can not move out of the map (100 x 100)
• the Ai can only move to its left, forward or its right. (Moving backward is suicide as it would hit its own trail !)
• If too much CPU power is required to decide where to go, the Ai dies.
• If two Ais moved to the same spot, both of them die.
• The Ai has to survive as long as it can.

The game ends

• Once no players can make a move the player with the biggest score wins

How to write your AI

• Copy the code on the file random.js to your file, ai.js
• You may now edit the update function which is called each turn

How to test your AI

• You may use this link tron, to test your AI

• You need to add your AI as a user in that link,

• Example: if your git login is Frenchris and you want to test against LEEDASILVA the link becomes: https://01.alem.school/public/subjects/tron/?ai=Frenchris@master+LEEDASILVA@master&seed=1653547275

• Open the inspector of the browser used and disable the cache

• let's change the update function so that your AI only goes forward.

Replace this line just before the return of the update function

 const available = coordsInBound.filter(isFree)

With this line

const available = coordsInBound.filter(isFree).filter(el => el.direction === 0)

• save the file, push the changes and rerun the game in the browser. If the cache was correctly disabled, you have changed your AI behaviour from a random pick of available moves to only going forward.

• To understand better the way of controlling your AI, read the comments inside the AI file and do a lot of testing.

• When peer-corrected, you AI will be competing against other AIs. Be aware that there will be the possibility for the peer-correcter to use his or her own AI.

May the best tron win :)

Have fun and good luck.