aesy / othello-battle

Competition amongst friends where each contestant implement an Othello bot

Othello Battle

This project contains the base for a fun late night competition amongst friends where each contestant implements an Othello bot. The bots will then face eachother in a tournament eliminating each other until one is left victorious.

Rules

• Only implement the abstract methods of Player.
• Don't access private members.
• Honour contracts, follow the documentation.
• An error occuring results in the player causing the error to lose the game.
• Making a move is limited to 5 seconds. Taking longer results in a loss.

Instructions

Make a fork

Click the fork button in the github interface

Clone your fork

Clone your fork using git

$ git clone <url-to-your-fork>
$ cd <your-fork>

Install

Install the dependencies using npm

$ npm install

Implement a player

Example:

// #/src/bot/RandomBot.js
import { Player } from "../game/Player";

export class RandomBot extends Player {
    constructor(name, color) {
        super(name, color);
    }

    async getNextMove(state) {
        const possibleMoves = state.getPossibleMoves();
        const randomMove = possibleMoves[ Math.floor(Math.random() * possibleMoves.length) ];

        return { x: randomMove.x, y: randomMove.y };
    }

    clone() {
        return new RandomBot(this.name, this.color);
    }
}

Try it out

Add your implementation to the player list

// #/src/app.js
const players = [
    new RandomBot("A", "black"),
    new RandomBot("B", "white")
];

Serve the application locally

$ npm start

Visit localhost:8080 in a browser and see them go!

Push it

$ git add src/bot/RandomBot.js
$ git commit -m "Add random bot player implementation"
$ git push

Create a pull request

A pull request can be made in your forked project UI on github

License

MIT, see LICENSE file.