[ Posted by urban ]
This release is just a point release that makes the following changes:
As before the tarball can be gotten from bettong.net/fico/ and the latest development version from the darcs repository at http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~hafner/darcs/fico .
[ Posted by urban ]
Fico is an implementation of the board game Havannah. It is completley written in Ruby.
The aim is to write a fairly strong AI for the game. At the moment the only features are that the program can play according to the rules and that a random player exists.
There are two ways to get the program.
darcs get http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~hafner/darcs/fico.To run fico against itself on a board of size 10 run the command ./fico in the toplevel directory. Run ./fico -h to see all possible command line options.
If you want to play against the program use the -b or -w switch to select your colour. You will then be asked to enter your moves in the terminal. Be sure to enter them in the form <char><number> (e.g. a1 or c4).
You are of course welcome to write your own AI. But don’t expect to much (yet :)) from the framework that binds your bot into the rest of the application.
Look at src/player/RandomPlayer.rb for a simple AI. The necessary steps to get your own bot running are:
ComputerPlayerTermComputerPlayerinternal_generate_move. This method should return the next move of your AI.RandomPlayer or Simple1PlyYou can contact me at urban@bettong.net. Watch this place for announcements of new versions.
