Re: [Widelands-public] What about a new contest? -> Map contest?

[Tijmen B. <ti...@gm...>]

Hi all!

""""
Besides: I am in contact with a guy who wants to improve our AI - he
hasn't yet started as he is now on a trip to Australia (often people
tell strange things and dissappear - but who knows, perhaps the AI will
see an improvement in near future as well)
""""

That's me I think (if not, the more the merrier), might as well introduce
myself properly. My name is TiRune (Tijmen Blankevoort) from the
Netherlands. I have a few years experience in the field of AI through
programming AIs for small simple games, chess, checkers and go. I'm studying
Mathematics, computer science and Japanese, and because of the latter I'm
moving to Japan for a year (not Australia :P). Moving there in 3 weeks
exactly, and have some work left to finish here. So as Peter already said,
that's the strange story, and I won't be of any help in that period. At any
rate, when I'm settled in Japan I'm planning to spend a few days on the
Widelands AI. It'll take me some time to get used to the program code
ofcourse, but I'll draft a plan of what my concrete ideas are afterwards.

Are there any other people working on the AI? If so please contact so we can
keep in touch ^^

The contest for maps seems like a good idea, most of the maps in Widelands
at the moment I've found to be rather unplayable in general. It might be
difficult to actually get balanced maps going though, since you'll need
someone at a LAN or summat to test.

At any rate, I'll keep up to date through the mailing list, and you'll hear
from me when I've started working ^^

Cheers,
TiRune
2008/8/4 Peter Schwanemann <sea...@gm...>

> Holger Rapp schrieb:
> > It is good to see your enthusiasm being back!! :)
> >
> doesn't mean much ;-) - there are many exams in next two months, so my
> activity will decrease in next time again :-D
> > I like the idea. It would be great to have an official widelands
> > shirt. I for
> > one would dig to have one.  I only see problems with technical stuff:
> > multiplayer campaing maps and single player campaings are hard to
> > build because
> > the tools do not work very reliable and there are hardly any triggers
> > and
> > events. I for one would like to see what people come up with the
> > current state,
> > but i fear that the bar lies pretty high for new map creators to make
> > more than
> > a basic map without triggers and events.
> >
> Of course you are right there - BUT there are already some guys on IRC
> that talked about their work on their own campaign maps - the thing
> missing the most for them is motivation ;-) - so perhaps this contest
> would give this missing part for a good map.
> Anyway I am quite sure, that the number of submissions in category
> "scenario maps" will be much lower than in "multi-/singleplayer
> non-scenario maps" but I see another outcome of this contest: the
> participants will give a clearer view of the most important missing
> triggers and events... That's one point giving other people of the
> community the wish to help us out in integrating these - and if not...
> well at least we will know, what we should integrate next, to make
> widelands more useful :-)
>
> Besides: I am in contact with a guy who wants to improve our AI - he
> hasn't yet started as he is now on a trip to Australia (often people
> tell strange things and dissappear - but who knows, perhaps the AI will
> see an improvement in near future as well)
>
> However.. I'll begin to write a "rules and conditions of participation"
> and will send it to the mailinglist in the next days so you can have a
> look at my plans :-)
>
>
>
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