Here are some tips, tricks and resources for creating your bot!

Submit your own in the #general channel on Discord, and we'll add it here for other participants to see.

Note: we are not suggesting that these are approaches you should take. Rather, they are here to provide you with some inspiration, or something challenging to try.

Tips and Tricks

• 📏 The Manhattan Distance
• 🗺️ Printing the full game map
• 🎲 Checking whether game_state has been updated (Dealing with asynchrony)
• 🕹️ Storing and planning moves

Resources

🏆 AI Sports Challenge (2020) Submissions

You can find some of the bots submitted to our last tournament here:

CoderOneHQ/dungeons-and-data-structures

(You're welcome to raise a pull request on the Repo to add your bot to the directory as well!)

🤖 Provided Agents

The following Agents are provided for you to practise against:

• my_agent.py: a template file to help you get started with your first Agent
• wanderer.py: a bot that wanders aimlessly around the map
• stand_still.py: a bot that thinks for 1s and does nothing
• random_agent.py: a bot that makes random moves