Ms Hack Man Starterbot

This project is the official golang "starter bot" for the Ms. Hack Man competition, hosted by booking.com. It can be downloaded from the how to play page.

The starter bot is able to make valid (but random) moves around the board. It is used as a baseline point for other developers to copy the code, and implement a search algorithm on top of it.

Game rules

The rules are available here. In short, the player must navigate a pacman like maze at the same time as another player. Both players must collect snippets, plant mines, and avoid enemies.

How it works

The game engine requests information and sends information to the player using stdin. The bot must reply to the engine with stdout, within the timeout period. API reference.

Compiling

Just the bot locally:

go build -o starterbot
./starterbot

To run the bot with the engine locally (to run a full game):

See the instructions from the engine's GitHub page.