Small pet project to learn Kotlin and better understand project deployment, dependencies and anything I might need and am not comfortable with as of the start of the project.
The project itself aims at building a custom client to the https://pokemonshowdown.com/ Pokemon battle simulator.
The first step is to connect to it with the help of the Ktor framework, and then exchange messages in order to be able to start a battle and see the end of it (choosing random or default actions to keep it simple).
At this point I hope the be more familiar with Kotlin and the second step will be to create a real strategy that actually tries to win. The first idea that comes across is a Minmax algorithm, but I'll see when I get there.
###Useful links
Showdown sources : https://github.com/smogon/Pokemon-Showdown
Showdown client : https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown-client
Bot FAQ : https://gist.github.com/Kaiepi/becc5d0ecd576f5e7733b57b4e3fa97e
Web client Ktor : https://ktor.io/