Gábor Melis' () blog - September 2010

Released v0.6 (git, latest tarball). The way the server compiles lisp submissions was fixed and this revealed a problem where MyBot.lisp redirected *STANDARD-OUTPUT* to *ERROR-OUTPUT* causing the server to think compilation failed.

The Google AI Challange is back with a new game that's supposed to be much harder than Tron was this spring. The branching factor of the game tree is enormous which only means that straight minimax is out of question this time around. Whether some cleverness can bring the game within reach of conventional algorithms remains to be seen.

Anyway, I'm adding yet another starter package (latest tarball) to the lot. It is based heavily on aerique's. Highlights compared to his version:

• no excessive use of specials (*INPUT*, *FLEETS*, etc)
• player class to support different types of players
• MyBot.lisp split into several files
• it uses asdf (more convenient development)
• made it easier to run tests with executables (./MyBot) or when starting a fresh sbcl (./bin/run-bot.sh)