pruzze / light-riders-engine

Starapple Light Riders

This repository contains the engine for the StarApple Light Riders game for the Riddles.io platform.

Setting up

This guide assumes the following software to be installed and globally accessible:

• Gradle 2.14
• JVM 1.8.0_91

Opening this project in IntelliJ IDEA

• Select 'Import Project'
• Browse to project directory root
• Select build.gradle
• Check settings:
• • Use local gradle distribution
• • Gradle home: /usr/share/gradle-2.14
• • Gradle JVM: 1.8
• • Project format: .idea (directory based)

Note: for other IDEs, look at online documentation

Building the engine

Use Gradle to build a .jar of the engine. Go to Tasks -> build -> jar.
The .jar file can be found at build/libs/.

Note: You can also download the latest engine .jar file from the 'releases' tab on the GitHub repo.

Running

Running is handled by the GameWrapper. This application handles all communication between the engine and bots and stores the results of the match. To run, firstly edit the wrapper-commands.json file. This should be pretty self-explanatory. Just change the command fields to the right values to run the engine and the bots. In the example, the starterbot is run twice, plus the command for the engine built in the previous step.

To run the GameWrapper, use the following command (Linux):

java -jar match-wrapper-*.jar "$(cat wrapper-commands.json)"

Or run run_wrapper.sh, which contains the same command.

Note: if running on other systems, find how to put the content of wrapper-commands.json as argument when running the match-wrapper.jar