Reviving Planet Wars

[tinny]

Hi,

I would like to see the Planet Wars AI challenge continue by setting up my own servers.

My goal is to create a permanent server where people can run their bots against each other and view games on canvas.

Is it possible for me to take over this project?

If so, I have a Linode server I can use to host.

Any help to get this started again would be much appreciated!

[MagnumPU]

Tinny, I think there's a TCP server running, have you seen post?

[tinny]

Thanks a lot for that!

Good to see it's still active.

Is there any info out there on setting up your own TCP server?

[smiley1983]

Here are some instructions for the setup:

First, clone or download the whole repository:

wget https://github.com/smiley1983/ants-tcp/archive/master.zip

or

git clone https://github.com/smiley1983/ants-tcp.git

In planetwars/planetwars_tcp there are two scripts, webserver.py and tcpserver.py - currently they are set to open ports 2090 and 2091 respectively. Change these to whichever ports you want.

Then run them both as a normal user with something like this:

nohup ./webserver.py> webserver.nohup &
nohup ./tcpserver.py> tcpserver.nohup &

Using nohup means that you can log out of the ssh session without the scripts dying.

You can redirect port 80 to whichever port you chose for the webserver if you prefer. I use this line, to be run on boot:

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 2090

It's possible to run multiple servers on one machine, connecting to different ports as I have done here:

http://li414-97.members.linode.com/home

To create that front page and link all of the servers back to it, I have done some ugly context-specific editing of all the webserver.py files, not published on github. A better solution is not too difficult I'm sure, but I'm working on other things for now.