hide-and-seek-ai | Hide and Seek AI Competition

First ensure you are running Node v12 or above and have npm installed. Check this by running node -v and npm -v. If you don't have them, see this section for setting up your environment to start running hide and seek games. First install all files necessary, run the following. Now, you have access to the hide-and-seek command, which can be used to watch matches and run matches. Download a starter kit of your choice from this repository in the kits folder or click the following to download kits for different languages. C++, Javascript, Java, Python. We will be using the JS kit as an example. Suppose in the same folder there is a kits folder with js bots in the directory ./kits/js/bot.js. The bot.js file is a main file, which every bot needs in the root directory of the bot. To run a match, run the following. This will run the match live in your terminal. Set --live=false to make the match skip the live view and run as fast as possible. Furthermore, ensure you have the correct tooling to run your bots. E.g. if you have a java bot, make sure javac works. See this for info on what tooling is required for each bot language and how to match the servers. Matches will create a replay file of the format of match_<some long id>.json in the replays folder. To watch the replay, run. Set --delay to equal any number of seconds, representing the delay between each frame of the match. 0.2 for example represents 1/0.2 = 5 FPS. for a full list of options. Now you are ready to start developing your bot! Read the comments provided in the starter kits for information on what data is available and how to start developing a bot. You can also check out the general API. Furthermore, make sure to never print to standard out (other than your commands). To help debug, print to standard error instead. If you want to run and watch matches through the JS/TS API, see this.