Colonial Battle Board Game!

Setup

To setup the game, clone this repository and install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Playing a game

To start playing a game, we need to implement agents. For example, to play the game using two random agents (agents which take a random action), run the following:

python simulator.py --player_1 random_agent --player_2 random_agent

This will spawn a random game board of size NxN, and run the two agents of class RandomAgent. You will be able to see their moves in the console.

Visualizing a game

To visualize the moves within a game, use the --display flag. You can set the delay (in seconds) using --display_delay argument to better visualize the steps the agents take to win a game.

python simulator.py --player_1 random_agent --player_2 random_agent --display

Play on your own!

To play the game on your own, use a human_agent to play the game.

python simulator.py --player_1 human_agent --player_2 random_agent --display

Game Rules

Game Setting

On an M x M chess board, 2 players are randomly distributed on the board with one player occupying one block.

Game Moving

In each iteration, one player moves at most K steps (between 0 and K) in either horizontal or vertical direction, and must put a barrier around him or her in one of the 4 directions except the boarders of the chess board. The players move in a round-robin way.

Note:

• Each player cannot go into other player's place or put barriers in areas that already have barriers.
• Currently the maximal number of steps is set to K = (M + 1) // 2.

Game Ending

The game ends when each player is separated in a closed zone by the barriers and boundaries. The final score for each player will be the number of blocks in that zone.

Goal

Each player should maximize the final score of itself, i.e., the number of blocks in its zone in the endgame.

License

MIT