Game AI Competition Portal

It is a toolkit provided by the competition organizer.

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You need to configure the RGB code for the ghosts and the X-Y position of game screen in the MsPacInterface.Java code. You can start the sample controller.

java pacman.MsPacInterface

In the toolkit, there is an example controller code. It simply moves to the closest pill.

public int move(GameState gs) {
  // let's say we move towards the
  // simple controller that tries to move towards the nearest power pill
  // set up a rogue value for the move, and a large value for the closest pill
  move = -1;
  double best = 100000;
  for (int i = 0; i < dirs.length; i++) {
    if (d[i] > 12) {
      tmp.set(cur);
      tmp.add(vDirs[i]);
      // System.out.println(i + "\t " + eval(tmp, gs));
      if (eval(tmp, gs) < best) {
        move = i;
        best = eval(tmp, gs);
      }
    }
  }
  if (move < 0) {
    System.out.println("Move error: " + move);
  }
  // the +1 is to map the move into a range of joystick actions
  // where '0' is centre position
  move += 1;
  return move;
}

public double eval(Vector2d pos, GameState gs) {
  if (gs.closestPill != null) {
    return pos.dist(gs.closestPill);
  } else {
    return 0;
  }
}

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It automatically detects the position of the game screen. You don't need to reconfigure the color of the ghosts.

You can open the project from the package using Visual Studio 2008. It also supports the simulator for the Ms. Pac-Man controller.

You can control the program from the user interface.