My company has a new hiring campaign, I think it's awesome. You are challenged to write a controller program for virtual robots that fight each other in an arena:
https://botwarz.eset.com
And the boss made an internal competition for this as well - whoever writes the best-ranking ESET bot, will receive either a Lego Technic set, or a fine whiskey, whichever they prefer. I think I might give it a try, too
Perhaps my childhood dream of owning lego will finally come true
Awesome!
Now we're with LEGO robot programming at school!
That looks like fun. When does the campaign end?
No-one really knows, and the previous "campaign" has been around for some three or four years
Ah, didn't make it. I just finished writing the framework so that I could write the bots in Lua, and just as it started working, I ran out of time for the internal company competition. I guess I'll have to wait with the Lego until I get kids of my own.
But at least now we've got a cool framework to try writing AIs in Lua
https://github.com/madmaxoft/EsetBotWarz
Sure, it needs documentation and stuff, but it's a start.
I think I got a bit carried away with this little project
The framework feels quite solid now, it has proper logging and everything, and I also have a logfile visualiser, that parses the logs and displays all the game data and AI data visually:
![[Image: ebwlogparser.png]](http://mc-server.xoft.cz/img/ebwlogparser.png)
Did you believe Minecraft was a badly optimized game? See Rust.
Its running at low 1080p 30fps in my PC while BF4 is running at medium 1080p 60fps...
I think that one of the development team members decided to stick "std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(16))" in the main game loop as a troll.
Explains the consistantly bad framerate. At least they were consistent with the screw up.