GoBotGo

GoBotGo is a competitive Go (board game) arena written in Go (golang) for bots to play via an HTTP API. Hosted at http://gobotgo.bellstone.ca.

Premise

• The pun is good.
• We wanted to be able to compare bots written in different languages.

What Works

• API endpoint.
• Board state, game rules and point totals.
• Go client library for writing bots.
• Demo bots, both random and best available move.
• Sketchy Human-AI/Human-Human interface.

API

• All requests are under the root /api/v1/game/.
• start/ returns a GameID and starting color. Each player is given their own GameID.
• play/<GameID>/move accepts a move as [] (pass) or [x, y].
• play/<GameID>/state returns board state, including current player, captured and remaining pieces.
• play/<GameID>/wait returns after opponent has finished their turn.

Todo

• Implement a game room.
• Register players and bots to compare histories.
• Statistics collection, game persistence.
• Allow trials to be setup to compare bots.
• Clean up javascript errors (lol).
• Write more bots!

Known Bugs

• plate/<GameID>/state returns game over once the game is over.