This project provides an easy environment for getting started developing your very own AI for the Atomic Games.
First, you'll need to get the game server running and familiarize yourself with the JSON format it uses to communicate with the player AIs.
Next, you'll need to have Leiningen 2.0 or greater installed. I recommend using Homebrew on MacOS to install Leiningen.
This starter kit does all the work of setting up a TCP server and parsing JSON from the game server. One important note: the JSON parsing code also converts the keys to and from "snake_case" Strings and "kebab-case" keywords.
E.g., "player_id" in the JSON becomes :player-id in Clojure, and vice versa.
To define your AI, you'll start by editing src/rts/ai.clj.
By using lein repl to launch the Clojure REPL, you'll automatically be dumped
into the rts.repl namespace. To start the AI within the REPL, you can use the
go fn. The REPL server will listen on port 42420.
rts.repl=> (go)
After you already have the server running, you can use the restart fn to
automatically:
- Tear down the server
- Reload all your code
- Restart the server
Like so:
rts.repl=> (restart)
This should be fairly reliable, but if you totally wreck your code, you may need to restart your repl.
If you don't desire the ability to easily reload your code and restart the server, you can also use leiningen to run the rts.core namespace. This will start the server listening on port 9090, which is the default for the game server.
lein run
Clojure 1.9 alpha and Clojure Spec alpha are included.
The namespace rts.server.messages includes some sketches for Spec-ing the
messages sent to and received from the server, but they happen to already be
out of date.
The included Dockerfile will pull dependencies and run with lein run
To build:
docker buildx build -f Dockerfile ./ -t client-clojureTo run:
docker run -p 9090:9090 client-clojure