The championship is currently in beta stage / Чемпионат находится в стадии бета-теста
Write an artificial intelligence to control a team of units, build, gather resources and attack your enemy. Compete with other participants in the championship!
Detailed description of the task can be found in “CodeCraft” championship and Rules sections.
AI Cup — open artificial intelligence programming contest. Test yourself writing a game strategy! It’s simple, clear and fun!
Ninth AI Cup championship is named CodeCraft. You are to program an artificial intelligence to play the game. Your strategies will compete with each other in the Sandbox and the championship. You can use any of programming languages: C++, C#, F#, D, Go, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Rust. The Sandbox is already open. Good luck!
We welcome both novice programmers — students and pupils, as well as professionals. Writing your own strategy is very simple: basic programming skills are enough.
Begin from the Quick start guide. Writing a simple strategy is not hard at all!
Moving mechanics have been improved, meaning you can now make two or more units follow each other without a gap between them. Also, the cost of building new entities has been made dynamic - more entities of a type you have, the more a new one costs. In the new version of client packages EntityProperties::cost has been renamed to initial_cost. See details in the rules.
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PyPy 3.6 has been added. PyPy is another Python interpreter, and may perform better than CPython.
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In the past years, the winners have received prizes, like MacBooks, iPads, watches and hard drives. In addition, we presented 60 hoodies and 360 T-shirts.
Unfortunately, the participants of the previous AI Cup received T-shirts only almost a year later (we delivered the prizes). In a pandemic, we were powerless and not ready.
In this regard, we thought to cancel the merch in this competition, but a the community did not receive this news well. “No promo codes or other virtual prizes needed, we need T-shirts and hoodies” - quote from the community.
Change 1: the prizes are now not physical, but cash. This year’s winners will receive:
Sandbox winners (also 6 people) will receive 10,000 rubles each. Amounts are after taxes. We have significantly increased the prize pool.
Change 2: T-shirts and hoodies will be available, but delivery will not be until February. If you don’t want to wait, you can exchange your promotional gift for a promotional code in Mail.ru Group services (cloud, etc.).
All participants in Round 2 will receive T-shirts, and the finalists will receive hoodies.
New updates are now available. Changes:
You can download new version of the app. Also, GitHub repository is now available with rules, clients and changelog. If you encounter a bug or want to suggest an improvement, please use the issue tracker.
As you may have noticed, the testing system is now up and running.
Also, there has been small bug fixes in the app, so you can download the new version now:
More bugfixes and changes in the balance are coming, stay tuned.
Hello everyone!
AI Cup 2020 has finally started, but in beta-test for now. Beta test will last a week, and during this time major changes in rules and balance of the game are possible.
The testing system will be available soon, but you already can read the rules / run games locally as well as start implementing your strategy.
