Connect N Player Template

Primary Goal

• Publish an implementation of Player to a maven repository. Become familiar with software workflows and artifact deployment.

Secondary Goal

• Produce a champion connect N AI.

Steps

• Decide if you're working on your own or in a group of up to two.
• Fork this repo into your personal space in github (ensure that it is publicly available). Enable "workflows" on your project after clicking the "actions" tab.
• Change the name on line 22 of pom.xml (this will set your artifact id)
• Change line 33 of your pom.xml to fill in your github username and project name. This will tell maven where to publish your package.
• Move the class NameAI from the com.thg.accelerator.connectn.ai.yourteam package to replace yourteam with the name of your team (lowercase).
• Rename the NameAI class to whatever you would like to call your AI. Bonus credit for a funny name.
• Implement your Connect N AI logic inside makeMove

Rules

• For the competition, we will set the width of the board to 10, height to 8, and n to 4.
• Feel free to copy/improve the analysis code here, although if you do copy it, make sure you change the package so it doesn't conflict with the fully qualified class name in connect n.
• Your solution must use less than 2G of Heap, and terminate within 10 seconds on whichever machine is executing it. Your jar should be no larger than 100MB.
• You may calculate a move database, which can be stored inside your jar. However, no calls to internet services are allowed.
• If your AI makes a foul move or violates the performance constraints above, it will forfeit the game.

Making your submission

Once you're ready to submit your entry:

• Perform a release in github (we will go through how to do this)
• Enter your repo url into https://jitpack.io/, click "get it", then check the status of the job
• Make a note of the groupId and artifactId -- you will need to specify these in the next step
• Add a json file representing your team into this repo. See example.json for an example of the format required.
• Update the version in this file when you are happy with this version

Timelines

If your solution is published in jitpack and in member_info by Friday 26th Jan 6pm GMT, your solution will be entered in the contest. Later submissions may also be included, but this will be on a best-effort basis.