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swint is a console client (entirely written in Ruby) for the swarm intelligence programming game originally created by Stefan Schwarzburg.

game facts

  • program a robot
  • in any programming language
  • that will be the first to find the goal
  • on a hexagonal tile state space map
  • through a simple xmlrpc-interface

install

  • gem install swint
  • or download the gem from rubyforge

downloads

links

screenshot

What you see is a hexagonal tile state space map. The states are: _ for free fields, o for objects, S for start, ! for energy fields, # for outside, G for goal. 
      ROUND: 16
      1. [ 5/ 8] PinkElephant (phil)            [sp:  4, si:  8, po:  0, we:  0, en:  8]
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