AI:MMO

A Massively Multi-player Online game, where players create Artificially Intelligent programs to play on their behalf.

Architecture

Core Game (Simulation)

• Maintain state
• Simulate environment events
• Run player actions

Sandboxed User-Submitted AI Players (Avatars)

• Each player in their own sandbox: http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/sandbox.html
• API into core game to get state and perform actions

Web Interface

• Django
• In-browser editor: https://c9.io/ or http://ace.c9.io/#nav=about (think cloud9 just uses Ace) or https://codemirror.net/
• Game view (so players can see their avatars play the game)
• Statistics

Setting up

Initial installation:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the game server:

python ui/manage.py runserver

If you encounter migration issues, run:

python ui/manage.py migrate