The open source your ant bot topic

[pkmiec]

Hi,
This is my code and jar. Enjoy!!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ants2011/

This is the nicest factored code I've seen yet. Nice job GreenTea.

[gak]

Rank was ~850 and is written in Python. Wrote it in a few days before the end of the comp because I didn't know about the competition until the last minute.

https://github.com/gak/google-ai-challenge-ants
http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=13721

I'm curious to know what you think!

[codetiger]

Here is my bot source code. The best skill level my old version got is 75 but I am expecting my new version to beat 82. And the source is in pypy

https://github.com/codetiger/Ants-for-AI-challenge

[bhasker]

http://code.google.com/p/malazan-ants/

Probably will end up in the 800-900 rank range. Though the version on this repo is newer than the final upload and probably will do better.

[zarkon]

I uploaded my code at

https://github.com/mbrezu/zarkon

and a document explaining the code is at

https://github.com/mbrezu/zarkon/blob/m ... proach.mkd

I look forward to looking at the bots other people have posted in this topic. Seeing so many good ideas makes me feel dumb, but the educational thrill is too large to resist.

Thanks everyone for a great contest and for generously sharing your ideas.

PS: anyone seeing things to be improved in my code: please share your thoughts. Thanks!

[tiberiu44]

Here's mine. It was doing fine before the contest started but now i got a few timeouts and lost a couple of games.
It's written in C# and if you have any improvement suggestion, please let me know.

AntAING.zip

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[utoxin]

Mine is doing much better than expected. Currently in the top 500, and looks like it'll probably manage to stay there. We'll see. I would have been happy with top 750. I already linked it once, but here's a link to download the specific tagged version that's running right now.

https://github.com/utoxin/AIChallenge-A ... /version17

I would love feedback. I'm a veteran PHP and Perl developer, and decided I wanted to try my hand at Python. I'm sure I'm doing some things horribly wrong, but I did the best I could.

[ademar]

Here is my bot code. Currently in position 114, it is also my first OCaml program.

https://github.com/ademar/programs/tree ... ntest/ants

And profile:

http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=413

[pguillory]

Go version, top 10:
https://github.com/pguillory/aichalleng ... tree/final

C version that preceded it (and also reached top 10 at the time):
https://github.com/pguillory/aichallenge2011-c

[notgreat]

profile
I'm looking to be ranked somewhere around 150 or so. I use c++.

The biggest trick for my bot is to use a brute force algorithm for fighting in small battles. That jumped my rank from ~600 to where I am now. I use diffusion for exploration, food gathering, and reinforcement. Both that and my large scale battle algorithm could use some more fine tuning. I only use a single diffusion grid, and face major problems with ants all chasing after the same food. I had some ideas for fixing it, but decided to put a 1-day lockdown on code changes that weren't critical bugs (such as my ants suciding into each other trying to get onto an enemy's hill...)