On 7/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Claus Reinke</b> <<a href="mailto:claus.reinke@talk21.com">claus.reinke@talk21.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> There are lots of "robot battle" games out there, like<br>> but none in Haskell, of course.<br><br>do the icfp contests count? not even limited to haskell, and<br>there were several tasks that look related, including:
<br><br><a href="http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ants.html">http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ants.html</a><br><br><a href="http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/spec.html">http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/spec.html
</a><br><br><a href="http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/%7Esheard/2002IcfpContest/task.html">http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/%7Esheard/2002IcfpContest/task.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
claus</blockquote><div><br><div><br>
Perhaps it would be interesting to generalize the notion of a 'game' so
that programmers could design their own simple games to compete in as
well as designing game-playing agents? I'm not sure if this presents problems as far as running untrusted code but it would add a lot of appeal to the site in my mind. If designed right, the agents could be run against multiple games; seeing a hierarchy of agent performance across a number of different challenges would be very cool.
<br><br>David<br>
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