Coding Night challenge #7 at Zuehle Engineering

Write an AI bot that plays Asteroids! It must open a Websocket connection to the server, receive the game state, make a decision, send it’s action.

Schedule:

1. 60 minutes - read the rules, form two teams, and write your bot in any language you like
2. 30 minutes - pizza arrives and watch the bots fight it out (no intervention required other than restarts)
3. 30 minutes retrospective - present your algorithm and code

The video from the night:

Source links:

• Elixir game engine
• Javascript Asteroids GUI
• Sonic Asteroids audio

The champion of the evening was Alex!

Since that evening the graphics have been enhanced with Elm: