First Steps

Run the Bot

In your console:

cd networking; python start_game.py

In another tab

cd public; python MyBot.py

This will run 1 game. Options can be added to starting the game, among which:

python start_game.py -g 5 -x 30 -z 50

Will run 5 games, of at most 30 turns, which at most squares of strength 50.

All the options available for start_game might by listed (with a clear description) using the -h flag:

python start_game.py -h

In your console:

cd visualize export FLASK_APP=visualize.py;flask run

Then either:

Look at http://127.0.0.1:5000/performance.png for performance insights.

Or at http://127.0.0.1:5000/ for games replay.

To run the Bot in Pycharm, you should provide a mute argument, since MyBot.py needs to know it’s not on the Halite server, but running locally.

Go to edit configuration and add the script argument slave (so that the bot knows it is in slave mode).