Purdue Hackers Battleship

Synopsis

Battleship was an event put on by Purdue Hackers (http://www.purduehackers.com) in the Spring of 2016. Teams coded "bots" in the span of 3 hours, and then ran their code to compete against other bots. At the end, the top 8 teams faced off elimination style to compete for victory.

Code Example

Sample/Starter clients are located in the "StarterCode" directory.

Installation

• Download and Install MAMP
• Set MAMP Directory to Site/backend/Public
• Create MySQL Database (named Battleship) (use a GUI tool such as Sequel Pro)
• Copy Site/backend/.env.example to Site/backend/.env
• Fill in database information in .env (adding DB_PORT if necessary)
• Download and Install Composer
• Run composer install in the Site/backend directory (you might have to run php composer.phar install depending on how you installed composer)
• Run php artisan migrate in the Site/backend directory
• Run php artisan key:generate in the Site/backend directory
• Run mkdir -p Site/backend/storage/framework/sessions and mkdir -p Site/backend/storage/framework/views
• Run chmod -R 777 Site/backend/storage
  Install pip
• Run pip install Autobahn --ignore-installed six
• Run pip install twisted

Starting Servers

• Start MAMP Servers
• Start Battleship Server: python server.py

Starting/Viewing Game

• Open localhost:8888/game (The Game Viewer must be opened after the python server is running)
• Open and run 2 instances of client code (found in StarterCode folder) (either leave API_KEY as API_KEY_HERE or create a team on localhost:8888/login and use it's API_KEY)

Contributors

@harrischristiansen (http://www.harrischristiansen.com): Developed Server, Client, Web Interface/Game Manager, and Web Viewer
@balderfer (Ben Alderfer): Design
@nickysemenza (Nicky Semenza): Web Interface API
@wei170 (Guocheng Wei): Ported Python starter code to Java

License

Copyright 2016 Purdue Hackers and Harris Christiansen - All Rights Reserved