Seekers

Compete with your friends in this Programming tournament

Description

General

In Seekers, you program different bots that then compete against each other to see who was programmed the best. The Goal of the game is to collect as many 'goals' as you can, by getting them into your own camp, while stopping your enemy from doing the same. Whoever scored the most at the end of the game wins!

For this the so called 'seekers' are equipped with magnets that can attract or push away the goals. To disrupt your enemy from collecting goals however, you can ram their seekers with your own. This results in both seekers being stunned for a short while. If the enemy seeker had their magnet activated but yours didn't, only the enemy seeker will be disabled!

All in all if you want to win, you have to find a balance between disrupting your enemy and getting goals yourself.

This basic premise is augmented by adding different types of seekers. For example a faster seeker with a weaker magnetic field, or a seeker, that can shoot at his enemy's and disable them.

Seekers

Seeker

The basic seeker, nothing too special, but also not useless.

Stats:

• Radius: 5
• Mass: 3
• Max. Speed: 1.25
• Magnet Pull-strength: 0.75
• Magnet Push-strength: 1
• Slowdown factor by activated magnet (max Speed will be divided by this factor) : 3
• Stunned time: 60

Speedy

A faster seeker that has an almost useless magnet that also stays inactive after ramming a little bit longer.

Stats:

• Radius: 4
• Mass: 2
• Max. Speed: 2.5
• Magnet Pull-strength: 0.33
• Magnet Push-strength: 0.4
• Slowdown factor: 4
• Stunned time: 90

Chunky

A big seeker with a very strong magnetic field, and short recovery after a ram.

Stats:

• Radius: 6
• Mass: 5
• Max. Speed: 0.875
• Magnet Pull-strength: 1.25
• Magnet Push-strength: 1.75
• Slowdown factor: 1.5
• Stunned time: 45

Tank

A seeker that can shoot at a position and disable up to one target. Bullets are blocked by any object and all seekers will collide with them as if it were a normal seeker.

You can adjust the size of the bullet and thereby the speed at witch it travels.

Stats:

• Radius: 4
• Mass: 2
• Max. Speed: 0.5
• Magnet Pull-strength: 0.75
• Magnet Push-strength: 1
• Slowdown factor: 1.25
• Stunned time: 120
• Magazine: 6
• Reload: 200
• Magazine reload: 1000

Shield

A seeker that can activate a Shield around himself that blocks all enemy seekers and bullets.

The magnet however cannot be controlled and is pulling at all times

The Shield cannot be activated constantly, when inactive it slowly regenerates. The bigger the shield the less time it can be activated.

Stats:

• Radius: 4
• Mass: 2
• Max. Speed: 1
• Magnet Pull-strength: 0.375
• Magnet Push-strength: -
• Slowdown factor: 1
• Stunned time: 120
• Max. shield-energy: 150
• Shield recovery: 2.5
• Max. shield radius: 16
• Max. shield consumption: 4
• Min. shield consumption: 2

Usage

Run seekers.html in your Browser and choose the Bots to compete against each other

Bots

Requirements

A Bot for Seekers has to:

• be inside a class bot that extends AbstractBot
• have the function update that is called every frame
• have player as an argument in the constructor and call super(player) in it
• use at most 5 seekers at a time

All Bots have to follow this basic shape:

class bot extends AbstractBot {
   constructor(player) {
       super(player);
       for(let i = 0; i < this.player.max; i++) {
           this.addSeeker();
       }
   }

   update() {
   }
}

Functions

To add a seeker you can use the addSeeker() function. To add different seeker types use add + TYPE instead, for example addSpeedy()

Gameobjects

To access different parts of the game and interact with them, use the following functions:

• seekers() returns a list of all your seekers
• enemys() returns a list of your enemys seekers
• goals() returns a list of all goals
• ownCamp() return your Camp to return the goals to and score points
• enemyCamp() returns your enemys camp
• allRockets() returns a list of all currently fired rockets

Seekers

All seekers have the following functions:

• setTarget(v) sets the target of the seeker to the given position v
• setMagnetActive() sets the Magnet to the pulling strength
• setMagnetDisabled() disables the Magnet
• setMagnetRepulsive() sets the Magnet to the pushing strength

The Tank fires with the shoot(target, size) function, you select a target to fire at and a size to do it with. The bigger the bullet, the slower it is, but also the longer the target is stunned.

The Shield is activated with the shield(radius) function. To deactivate it set the radius to 0. The radius given is then added to the radius of the seeker to get the full radius of the shield.

Remaining

Some quality of life functions include:

• dist(v1,v2): calculates the distance between the vectors v1 and v2, also compensates for going through the edges
• getNearest(pos,list): returns the closest gameObject in the list to the given position
• getNearestList(pos,list): sorts the elements of the given list by their proximity to the given position