{"id":1026,"date":"2014-03-18T06:04:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T06:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.warlight.net\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-03-18T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:56:46","slug":"announcing-the-warlight-ai-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/announcing-the-warlight-ai-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the WarLight AI Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WarLight is partnering with <a href=\"http:\/\/theaigames.com\/competitions\/warlight-ai-challenge\">TheAIGames.com<\/a> to bring you the WarLight AI Challenge! This allows you to write our own WarLight bot and send it into combat with other people&#8217;s bots.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a ton of fun, but there are some serious <a href=\"http:\/\/theaigames.com\/competitions\/warlight-ai-challenge\/prizes\/eu\">prizes<\/a> available too, with the winner getting \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1024! ($1400)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the basic idea of how it works:<\/p>\n<p>1. Sign up at <a href=\"http:\/\/theaigames.com\">TheAIGames.com<\/a><br \/>\n2. Write an AI bot in C, C#, C++, Go, Java, PHP or Python (if you want to use a different language, please request it.) Your bot will choose what territories it wants to start in, where to deploy armies, and issue attack\/transfer orders, just like in WarLight.<br \/>\n3. Upload your bot to your profile at TheAIGames.com<br \/>\n4. Watch your bot match up against other bots in the interactive viewer.<br \/>\n5. If you lose any matches, figure out what your bot could have done better in that situation. You can see a log of the match which you can paste back into your bot, so you can easily debug what you code was doing in any situation.<br \/>\n6. Improve it, and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all the details <a href=\"http:\/\/theaigames.com\/competitions\/warlight-ai-challenge\">TheAIGames.com<\/a>. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WarLight is partnering with TheAIGames.com to bring you the WarLight AI Challenge! This allows you to write our own WarLight bot and send it into combat with other people&#8217;s bots. It&#8217;s a ton of fun, but there are some serious prizes available too, with the winner getting \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1024! ($1400) Here&#8217;s the basic idea of how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/announcing-the-warlight-ai-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Announcing the WarLight AI Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/war.app\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}