Battle of Bits

Battle of Bits is a hosted service for competitive board game AI programs. We host daily tournaments and continual round-robin matches with your robot.

How it Works

After you sign up on the website, create a profile for your bot. For each bot your create, you'll need to associate a URL with that bot so that we can talk to it. Each game a bot plays will need a different URL.

Should a bot only exist for a single type of game? Or should a bot work across multiple games?

Developing Battle of Bits

If you wish to work on Battle of Bits itself, you'll first need Go installed (version 1.2+ is required). Make sure you have Go properly installed, including setting up your GOPATH.

You'll also need lib/pq to compile packer. You can install that with:

$ go get -u github.com/lib/pq

Next, clone this repository into $GOPATH/src/github.com/battleofbits/arena and then just type make. In a few moments, you'll have a working arena executable:

$ make
...
$ bin/arena
...

You can run tests by typing make test.

If you make any changes to the code, run make format in order to automatically format the code according to Go standards.

Adding Games

See the readme in the games subfolder.