{"id":279,"date":"2010-10-07T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-10-07T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T02:34:18","slug":"google-ai-challenge-galcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Challenge (Galcon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m having a go at the AI challenge over <a href=\"http:\/\/ai-contest.com\">here<\/a>&nbsp;it&#39;s being organized by the&nbsp;University of Waterloo Computer Science Club and sponsored by Google. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The task is to make a bot that can play a random game of Galcon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/\">http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/<\/a>) so far my bot is doing just OK (<a href=\"http:\/\/ai-contest.com\/profile.php?user_id=5897\">http:\/\/ai-contest.com\/profile.php?user_id=5897<\/a>). I&#39;ve got the core architecture sorted out and am slowly working on the correct decisions to be made based on the metrics I&#39;m deriving from the state of play. Honestly if I finish in the top 100 I&#39;ll be ecstatic, there&#39;s some really talented guys in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway they have a couple of visualizers which are nice (i.e.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ai-contest.com\/visualizer.php?game_id=5567455\">http:\/\/ai-contest.com\/visualizer.php?game_id=5567455<\/a>) but I thought what if I made a visualizer with Unity. &nbsp;It&#39;s a pretty good engine for doing stuff like this. So the next few posts will be me chronicling my development of a Galcon visualizer via Unity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"google AI thumb\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/googleAiThumb.png\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download the latest zip packages here:<\/p>\n<p>Windows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/downloads\/GalconViz.zip\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mac <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/downloads\/GalconViz_mac.zip\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m having a go at the AI challenge over here&nbsp;it&#39;s being organized by the&nbsp;University of Waterloo Computer Science Club and sponsored by Google. &nbsp; The task is to make a bot that can play a random game of Galcon (http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/) so far my bot is doing just OK (http:\/\/ai-contest.com\/profile.php?user_id=5897). I&#39;ve got the core architecture sorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,8,10,11,12],"tags":[24,26,53,31,32,40],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-development","category-games","category-project","category-site","category-technical-art","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-games","tag-google","tag-google-ai-challenge-sequence","tag-planet-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodgreen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}