👺 tRoLl vs 🏯 Castles 🏰

about 7 months ago

This isn't working anymore, when I try to Play My Code there's an error: The game has crashed. Please contact the author and enclose the following error: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.nio.ByteBuffer.rewind()Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer; at com.codingame.game.GodModeManager.transcend(GodModeManager.java:69) at com.codingame.game.Referee.gameTurn(Referee.java:71) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.GameManager.start(GameManager.java:122) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.RefereeMain.start(RefereeMain.java:67) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.RefereeMain.main(RefereeMain.java:50)

about 7 months ago

Thank you for reporting!

CallMeLoser Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

over 1 year ago

the idea and the graphics is very cool!

zzzz04 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

the idea and the graphics is really cool!

NexusGM Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

nice

ItsJaku Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

not bad

JUJUJUUL Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

OjPoj Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

not bad

over 1 year ago

Good mechanic! The player can compute the number of stones that the opponent launches at each turn. Maybe it could be an input to make the code easier...

nixmagic Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

good

[.........] Unnamed CodinGamer

over 1 year ago

nice

Fony88 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Simpa

Renan7 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

nice

ezsnova Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Is pretty neat, but I feel like text's are hard to read

Alurian Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

nice

nbaker Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Funny game

Antonin Do Souto Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

funny one, graphics are cool !

Radia. Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

thats nice

nrwlia Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Bilii Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Nice!

BranchiDavide Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Really nice

coderperson Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Cool

almost 2 years ago

LeifTerry Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

almost 2 years ago

I like the art.

RedSkull-666 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Interesting

ZartexV Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

almost 2 years ago

Very nice

TenKdoToLami Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Good one

Laurent92 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

funny and smart

mr.TL Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

nice game

Razovsky Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

I'm the 667e upvoter, to prevent Satan from delaying this contribution 3 years more !

[Ainz_Ooal_Gown] Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 2 years ago

Thank you for your valuable contribution.

almost 2 years ago

très bonne idée

Praetrorian Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Looks fun!

Tueur_dombres Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

good idea

Sahi_reddy Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

good work

0xPacman Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

looks fun, nice one

neohr71 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Good one.

AlirezaEbrahimi Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

It's so cool

ykhayri Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

The concept is clear and it's fun to work on

abdeeels Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

Newyn Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Nice one.

about 2 years ago

Looks good to me.

MassQiu Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

It looks like a good game

JMM17 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Sounds good

vivelataurine Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

i like the idea

JohannCarfantan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Interesting

timetraveller2023 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

nice game

LeDevNovice Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Reminder: JBM do not forget to log in in 5 days to restart the XP generator. :beers:

about 2 years ago

Really interesting

Novas004 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Nice idea!

Doran Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Interesting

Binec Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Really cool !

xlREDlx Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Nice!

about 2 years ago

I would like to see what would happen if some bots had say 5000 stones but overriding the OPTIONS > initialStones doesn't work. Also the default bot has a bug where it tries to send 0: https://www.codingame.com/...

Halberd Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

The game API doesn't allow matches that many turns long.

yu5uf Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

nice work :)

about 2 years ago

I don't see any strategy to this game...

Maareeks Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Yet there's a very clear winner on the leaderboard.

about 2 years ago

Interesting idea, would like to watch it being implemented.

Guezzi06 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Very good idea, I want to see it in next challenge, but I think there is a big part of random that should be reduced.. maybe improve it with add options like recover stones with another resource

about 2 years ago

Love the do not touch reference in the settings and the inexplicable tags

about 2 years ago

Is this a bug? Looks like the game ends 1 turn late. https://www.codingame.com/...

about 2 years ago

Haven't touched this in a while, but I recall all stones always get thrown in the end. It does seem a bit weird when it's specifically after exhausting the opponent's while having the troll reach him. Do I want to special-case that? Not presently.

about 2 years ago

how is pb4 still first??? hmm...

Kerosyn Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

He's just *that* good.

about 2 years ago

Must be implemented, really nice

Eulero314 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

very Nice

Francis31 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Nice

Apollo_zm Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

nice

Seii Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Niice

peerdb Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Pretty fun resource management game!

jouinikk Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

noice

imtiaz.py Unnamed CodinGamer

about 2 years ago

Cool

Ahmed_4 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Loved it !

DuckTypo Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Really interesting task

c_kerampran Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

This exercice is fun and interesting, well done ! I think it would be nice if the drawings were more attractive, because they don't put forward the exercice.

ALDERS0N Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

What are you talking about. I put everything I had into those drawings. And outsourced the rest!

over 2 years ago

nice

Slavchev070720 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

fun

SteDf Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

nice one

Somya_Gautam07 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Good

Gerald42 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

great

eswret Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

cool

xavierDev Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Great !

Chromia_Delta Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Awesome

Tadjaur Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Awesome

Tanvir_Ahmed Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Interesting

TH3_V01D Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Amazing

over 2 years ago

@JBM : merci de l'avoir laissé accessible jusqu'à maintenant, continue !

MichaelT2828 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Avec plaisir, c'est pas comme si ça me coûtait grande chose 😅 Et toi, qu'est-ce que tu deviens? C'est devenu dur de rester en contact depuis qu'ils ont tué le chat, tu n'es pas encore sur chelonian gall ?

over 2 years ago

fun

Fdr-Dost Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Amusing!

Vel_Te_Koz Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

looks fun

vani_909 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Fun!

lm0 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

nice!

Skje Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

look so nice !

ViziAndras Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

looks funny

Stounate Unnamed CodinGamer

over 2 years ago

Looks nice!

over 2 years ago

🍻️

Korkrane Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

EtiGg Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

ELVISSS

almost 3 years ago

Noice

COL9NKA Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

funny

Ohm- Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Looks funny

Westicles Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

#world chat

eulerscheZahl Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Happy Caturday

Westicles Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

#fr chat

ulayus Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Thats looks cool :)

almost 3 years ago

In the expert rules I think a better sentence would be: "In the lower leagues, the maps are chosen uniformly at random (you wouldn't believe the effort that went into this) among the following:"

almost 3 years ago

Hey JBM, see you in 20 days...to resubmit ^^

Sickaelle Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

It's a date!

almost 3 years ago

Can't wait to see it finished ^^

SaraH-Chan Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

almost 3 years ago

cool

But_Why Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

looks nice

Franklin-Griffin Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Fun game, please make it public so we can approve it.

[blank] Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

Nice, better game than battlefield 2042 :D

Smileymaniak Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

This made me laugh more than it should have XD

Kinoub Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 3 years ago

gud

Pietsen Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

about 3 years ago

Nice, and keep that graphic design ;)

wil0393 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Great idea

Anktinosia Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

It looks fun. I'll try !

Rafarafa Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

very impressive!

alex0as Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Cool !

pekkapitaine04 Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

about 3 years ago

JBM vs castles...still here...farming XP :rofl:

JTL.txt Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

I must say, the rate is really far from what it was at the start.

about 3 years ago

very good

VizGhar Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Put this dinosaur down already... there should be limit for 10 resubmissions or something... this is too much

about 3 years ago

Someone obviously doesn't get it.

Akiminos Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

about 3 years ago

Looks like a very fun game to play !

Pndablob Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

very cool

ilan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

good job, nice game

c3b5aw Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Seems funny to play

NicoEvgl Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Good job !

Tleilaxi Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Seems interesting

AntonSqlDev Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

cool game

Sigizmund Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

great game!

Brightttttttt Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

cool

cleverdumb Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Fun game!

z0nek Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Hilarious puzzle XD

NicolasJA Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Looks fun!

CoolandonRS Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Looks fun!

CatchMeIfYouCan Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

cool

Nyehehhejehejehehe Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

about 3 years ago

Simple game with funny troll, love it

Matthieu.L Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Looks pretty fun, keep going

portuguese_coder Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

good luck, game seems very fun

TryhardestIsBad Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

cool

shrshbel Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Nice

dLui Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Waiting for you to finish the game!

Frizyok Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Nice

INF-Zenyth Unnamed CodinGamer

about 3 years ago

Pretty cool!

aunterei Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

over 3 years ago

Really nice!!

TinyTimmy Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

so nice

ludicrous Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice one!

KernelTheFrog Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice contribution keep going JBM!

over 3 years ago

I love troll's phrases :D

BorkoBaby Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

And you're welcome to submit some of your own!

over 3 years ago

Really nice!

Jerrasterix Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Waiting for it to be approved :)

PhoenixFire Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

I dig it.

over 3 years ago

Here you go: 10xp for your pain good man.

Suryab Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Thank you!

over 3 years ago

great

dim_correia Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Very cool!

r0m1_ Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Looks fun!

ED222 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Super fun!

pacOver Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice

R4N4R4M4 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Hi, seems there is a problem with the starting code. See this capture : https://imgur.com/...

R4N4R4M4 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Or maybe it's the ending animation when the opponent has no more stone left... :D

bodbod Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

very nice

acoundexist Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Really good, but a bit of visual polish would be nice :).

alin2706 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice? Could be, but totally out of character.

Loshe Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice

over 3 years ago

great

AtisSirmais Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Code to win

worstdevforreal Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

pretty good ngl

chaosabordine Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice!

Zuldrouk Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

good idea !!

mathod31 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

great !

Matt0905 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Very nice!

over 3 years ago

Very cool idea. Hope it get's expanded

This_Is_Sky Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice

Iruka Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

really nice

VizGhar Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Will this one be finished ever? :)

Ardeshir Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

It was amazing

byhy Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice

Rb_wahid Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

interesting

over 3 years ago

Hey JBM! I'm sorry for this, but since I have to complete again the questmap... "Nice game!" :p

TimeEngineer Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Hey, as long as you upvoted it along the way…

over 3 years ago

Nice

poney Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Nice game 👌

Jerrasterix Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Awesome Game!!!

Strat489 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Good game

over 3 years ago

It's back!!!!

MrNotknalp Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

It was always right there in our hearts!

over 3 years ago

Simple and cool game :D

Jomnoi Unnamed CodinGamer

over 3 years ago

Very nice!

luke03 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Very cool!

NicolasD Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Very nice!

FrozenHearts07 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Good one!

Chuset21 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Nice game

GuiOdeSa Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Nice to trainning!

KP56 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Seems like a good game to practice botting for begginer programmers.

theonlyjt Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

The AI tried to print 0 twice during seed 4731795994182010900 but it was caught and instead printed a 1. This was using the approach of mimicking the AI's throws - 1. It does this on quite a few occasions. Since getting it, I haven't been able to reproduce it. The other method I tried that also brought this error is just a sequence of decisions, ``` if opponent_stones == initial_stones: print(2) elif troll_distance < 2: print(int(stones*.1)) elif road_length - troll_distance < 2 and stones > opponent_stones: print(stones) elif stones < opponent_stones: print(random.choice([1, 2])) else: print(int(initial_stones/(stones+2))+1) ```

GroutchKeu Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Fun and nice game !

yfe42 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Good one!

theonlyjt Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

I have found a bug where the AI sometimes prints a 0, which causes it to lose. Not game destroying but something that I assume is an easy fix :) Not as simple as it looks!

MarcoCat Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Now that's interesting. Could you tell me more? I'm not sure you can share a replay on a WIP game, but the seed parameters and your strategy should make it reproducible.

almost 4 years ago

Nice game!

SpaceInvaders Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Simple and fun.

almost 4 years ago

Very cool, "gain ground" game, simple and efficient.

H3r3zy Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

interesting

5ALID Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

awesome, the troll is so funny

GeekNbOne Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

NIce, great idea!

Hughbert Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Great Game

UUolfo Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Good concept, probably needs polish however, as for the most part there is a best path for winning. Not sure what the other races of trolls entail, I assume they may resolve this issue though.

CoachPRGM Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

GG, Great Game

maherdu91 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Very nice

Utkarsh554 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

GREAT GAME!

jmachado Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Great game :)

polill00 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

I'm very interested what high level bots would look like here.

klforthwind Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

I suspect mine and Jeff06's are as high as it'll get.

almost 4 years ago

Nice.

EnderWiggins Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Good Game.

AmaunRa Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Nice

00xHmF8k Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Nice one !

Developer.py Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

good game

Rile_ey Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

The art is perfect, don't change a thing.

Alex-1 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Nice game

RenardFute Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Nice but I think the graphics are a bit disturbing and made you enjoy the game a bit less.

Smelty Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

I'm so sorry you didn't enjoy the game as well as was intended.

almost 4 years ago

Great Game, but can you increase the amount of games played to say, 50? It makes ranking a lot more consistent :)

hanabi1224 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

That part is actually planned. It's intended to be the next league.

almost 4 years ago

nice!

HeySora Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Nice game :D

almost 4 years ago

Hey JBM, your game has a bug. Description: I'm not first anymore. How it should be: I should be first. Suggested way to correct: make me first.

Butanium Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

Which private key are you currently using?

almost 4 years ago

your numbers for gameseed and gameside are too big for Ocaml, it can't get those value because they are bigger than the max int value

ludo973 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

I'll ignore the comment for gameside, because surely you're joking. For gameseed, how much of a too big are talking about? Crashes the stub, or reads the wrong value?

almost 4 years ago

It looks very cool to play. Maybe you can add a way to get back the stones threw by the opponent

P_Square Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 4 years ago

You can get this value by storing the opponents previous stone count

JLukeSkywalker Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

Fun game, simple for new players too. I wish it had longer games possible though to maybe try to learn from the opponents as the game goes on.

Yokiharo Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

nice, seems interesting!

dvyne Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

interesting

TenOldMen Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

Very nice yes

Emanuik Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

NIce Work

Morkai Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

Very funny ! nice work

philRG Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

I liked this puzzle, but there was no league system before, right? That's a pretty cool improvement :-)

Soapie Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

Strategy is a bit wonky to try to get it right, with the whole "throwing all stones can only push 1, but throwing just one higher then theirs can also push 1"

De0triKs Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

+1 Very cool

about 4 years ago

All hail the troll, he's back to lapidate us!

STA_Habib Unnamed CodinGamer

about 4 years ago

Thank you for your valuable contribution. Joke aside, I'm *this* close to actually being able to set aside a little time for this. Hope at last!

about 4 years ago

+1 really cool!

artmyros Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

cool

AGM Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

+1. Really addictive if you give it a try!

Hit_20 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

cooool

DgH Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Thats really cool!

Wontonimo Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

I had a lot of fun making a simple logic based agent and just watching the fun! Way to make some very fun graphics for this bluff -based game of attrition

Matas_ Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

really fun idea

HKit Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Yeah, I came here to say that :)

ln-dev05 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

it seems to be funny !

Bastor Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Interesting concept, your game looks very promising, keep it up! :D

Barsy Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

seems interesting. When will it be released?

reinis_mx Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

As soon as it's ready.

over 4 years ago

Even after reading the description and trying the puzzle, I'm not sure what the rules are for how the troll moves left and right. It seems to be always 1 unit in the direction opposite of the most stones, but then sometimes he moves multiple units at once, which confuses me.

over 4 years ago

It's always one (or zero) move. I'm not sure how you could get the impression he moved multiple units at once. Can you reproduce? (it could be the fact the road can have different lengths from a game to the other. The screen length is always the same, but steps are shorter if the road length is longer within that viewport. But this should be made completely clear with the HUD.)

MrChocSalmon Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Cool!!!

over 4 years ago

This is pretty cool. I'm not sure if I missed it, but I thinking mentioning that the player who threw more stones is the player that'll push the troll. Overall though, it's a simple concept that could lead to some neat tactics

PaarthThePro Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

By the way, your contribution has 238 upvotes and only 4 downvotes so you should make it ready and let people approve it.

over 4 years ago

Yeah, I should.

Oioi Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Nice

SpiderSeb Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

looking forward to this!

VIK Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

cool

over 4 years ago

This theme seem really nice, please dont stop :)

over 4 years ago

I don't intend to.

over 4 years ago

Oh wait, I can level up just by posting comments ? Count me in !

PhOeNyX Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of users who can edit approved submissions!

over 4 years ago

Nice game :)

over 4 years ago

:rotating_light: 313 more upvotes to level up...go go go ! :rotating_light:

OlegKornelsen Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

This is going to take some time.

Kuun Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Ok I need to dev on this one !

over 4 years ago

Nice idea!

didw Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Good game!

BenjiIsBack Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

i need to try this one

Rader Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

nice one

nonetheless Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Fun Puzzle

dawici Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

fun game

JanisS Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

nice

chobo2102 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Good game!

RypKor Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Interesing :)

Edgee Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Nice

DatteMayo Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Nice

M.Nurda Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

not bad

ichbinsmith Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

pretty good

over 4 years ago

interesting and fun !!

tcr Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Great !

happypotato Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Nice!

Summa Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Nice!

tutubalin Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Just submitted default code. Got ~50% winrate.

nalsrA Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

So try not to do worse when you edit it.

over 4 years ago

Nice game

JFP81 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Very fun, good job !

Asmodeus Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Really cool game

sirsatan Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Great game!!

Raptile Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Cool game!

Coury Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

but its fun

Coury Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

i dont know how to do this

amitmishra795 Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

It's interesting

Randrian Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Well, the explanation of the game could still be improved a lot. For example it states nothing about how the troll moves. I guess it moves to the side that throws less stones. but this is not explained anywhere. What means "cheating is tolerated"? Can you throw stones you don't have? What are the rock and ice troll?

Alshock Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

The rules used to say "you can figure this out", and I honestly think it should never have changed. If you hesitate between different interpretations of the rules, put them to the test. What means "cheating is tolerated"? That means if your opponent does something that shouldn't logically be possible, they're probably cheating and it's allowed. Try to understand what they did and use that too. (but don't complain when your cheat gets fixed in upper leagues) What are the rock and ice troll? No idea. Please tell me when you find out. PS: I'm not the author and only speak in my own name. Much love and have a good day

Talha_Balaj Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

It's fun

irmuun Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Very good game

Kalaspa Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Thank you!

over 4 years ago

Interesting idea and I am even more interested about what solution people will come up with ! I have a small addition to the gameplay I would like to share: when the troll is in your half of the field, one could imagine that your soldiers are more motivated to harnest stones. Meaning that if the troll is in your half of the field, then your number of stones increases little by little. By adding this mechanic, I think you add more depth to the gameplay. Indeed you are encouraged to keep the troll in your half, at the limit so as to accumulate stones and only then attack brutally. What do you think ?

Haashi Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Or you could increase the cost of using stones. Meaning that if the troll is n tile closer to your castle, your opponent needs n more stone to beat you.

SAINADTH Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Really looking forward to see it.

bicklil Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

You know you can already play it, right? It's still got a major evolution coming, but it should be backward-compatible.

over 4 years ago

This project is cool. Maybe, you could add some extra rules during a turn. For example, during turn one, the winner just move the troll for one unit. In the second turn, the winner move the troll for X random unit, etc. This mechanics permit to have dynamic move during the game. The choice of the rule for calculating the winner and the reward can be done randomly

ZloyDrakosha Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

I'm afraid that would make the game a lot more random than it already is, and I'm not quite sure what the bright side it would bring to compensate.

over 4 years ago

An excellent and potential idea, I want to watch its development.

Elodie_ Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Thank you. Further development will likely be streamed (when I get back to it). I'll announce on the forum thread. https://forum.codingame.com/...

over 4 years ago

Really cool game!

nierin Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Thank you!

over 4 years ago

It's cool, but it need some more depth to be really good

over 4 years ago

I implemented full realtime 3D rendering of the trees and mountains! How much more depth do you need?!

Dlx Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

looking forward to seeing this in a play, will be cool when you finish and release it :D

csj Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

I have absolutely no feedback on the game concept itself. I merely wanted to drop a note to tell you that the beauty and simple elegance of the graphics brought a tear to my eye.

over 4 years ago

Thank you for the kind words. Much appreciated. :D

Bobobo-Bo_Bo-Bobo Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

PSA: if you intend to comment just to move your quest forward, please go and do so on a contribution of your own.

over 4 years ago

thicc

Apurba Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Similar feedback like @DepartmentOfRedundancy . The player can win if he output 1 through out the game, but in the last round, the player suddenly outputs a large number to win?!

DepartmentOfRedundancy Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

Similar answer like to @DepartmnentOfRedundancy which you'd have answer had you game but unclear you're asking.

over 4 years ago

I don't understand the difficulty of this game. It sounds like if I do while(1) print(1); I win?

Insufficient Unnamed CodinGamer

over 4 years ago

What's your ranking in the leaderboard with that strategy?

over 4 years ago

This is a great game. Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but I had 2 ideas: 1) An idea I had for increasing complexity: at the moment the troll only ever moves 1 step - but maybe you could have 'momentum' where a player winning multiple rounds gets the troll to build up speed and cover more steps per turn? This would reward winning multiple rounds in a row. 2) Another spicier rule would be that you cannot throw the same number of stones 2 turns in a row, unless you threw 1 stone the previous turn and you only have 1 stone left. All in all, this is a magnificent game - and I would play it in its current form even if the above were not included, these were only ideas.

over 4 years ago

Thank you for your input. I'm running late on implementation, but the roadmap is now a bit more final than it was in the beginning: complexifying the game as such was deemed "always possible, but not really interesting as far as the gameplay was concerned". It's just a matter of "meh, implement changes", but doesn't seem like it will change the strategies drastically, so we kept the simple version. The extensions will only address the "too random" aspect of the game by adding multiple rounds. The inertia aspect *is* interesting, I think it could warrant an experimentation, along with a couple of suggestions from the thread. But in a separate game.

almost 5 years ago

I hope you received enough feedback from the community to improve your contribution. Once you have made the necessary updates, publish your contribution!

almost 5 years ago

I guess your bot is cheating since it posts some seed as a message? Seems wierd anyhow that it uses 1 stone to throw 2.

almost 5 years ago

Yes, it cheats. Note that, while its inputs are worthless, it's not supposed to use up any more stones than you are.

almost 5 years ago

Navigating through a replay with the arrows is not very rewarding. Would be nice if there was some sort indication of what will happen on the next turn?

Zaap38 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 5 years ago

Ok, didn't see all the options. Love the pants :D But please stop the DEBUG from blinking. Looks good with the arrows, but annoying when watching replays.

almost 5 years ago

Ok so I finnally got my exam on this subject, and so one question was about adding the following rule: "p1, p2 number of stones threw. If p1 > p2 + 2, the troll is moving two cels away instead of one." I think this might be a nice rule adding more strategy.

WildSmilodon Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 5 years ago

While on the surface I like your rule, it will change absolutely nothing in my code and approach. Would it actually change anybody's ? If a new rule doesn't change the way the game will be approached, I am in favor of sticking with the smaller simpler purer ruleset. The only positive effect I can see is if it favors sending more stones each turn --> shorter games --> more games within the 600 frames budget. Haven't conducted a detailed analysis on this.

almost 5 years ago

I like the big rotating "STUPID" sign coming out when you run out of stones. But that is just me, some people might find that offensive.

almost 5 years ago

Strictly speaking, it's not when you run out of stones, it's when you try to send stones you don't have.

almost 5 years ago

The game has crashed. Please contact the author and enclose the following error: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.codingame.game.GodModeManager.update(GodModeManager.java:102) at com.codingame.game.Referee.gameTurn(Referee.java:122) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.GameManager.start(GameManager.java:122) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.RefereeMain.start(RefereeMain.java:67) at com.codingame.gameengine.core.RefereeMain.main(RefereeMain.java:50) When my bot crashed

almost 5 years ago

Well, that's all the more weird that I haven't pushed anything for >24hrs. Thanks for the report, investigating.

almost 5 years ago

This is the kind of game that would be perfect as a hidden contest :) "Hidden contest:" 4 hour contest where players could only play vs the default bot and no games were played on submit. After 4 hours, every player will start submission games. 10 games or more vs every other player on the leaderboard (not only close in rank) Winner with most wins afterwards. Kinda like Prisoner's dilemma as nobody knows what the others are going to do?

almost 5 years ago

Knowing the population, I'm sure it'd garner 3 happy random winners and 95% percent of disgruntled "how are we supposed to optimize for a non-meta" angry comments from the vocal community. So i LOVE it.

Thyl Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 5 years ago

Hello, Maybe You could replace the numbers with balls with different powers (magic balls ;-))

WINWINWIN Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 5 years ago

Now that's an idea!

almost 5 years ago

I like the game a lot. Other than what @AntiSquid said on the forum on adding elements / life points / abilities, Variable maps/stones is necessary, throwing 5 stones is too unfairly effective in this map. The code print(5) which I used should not have gotten this far. Will approve when it comes out, nicely done @JBM

almost 5 years ago

Thank you for your comment. Well obviously print(5) is more effective than the current meta's print(2). You could probably generalize to print(2*stones/roadLength). But it's only going to get you so far O:-)

almost 5 years ago

Gentle bug report/reminder from @Zorg1: the troll's messages are behind the castles. (will get on it tomorrow)

almost 5 years ago

FIX IT.

almost 5 years ago

Small visual issue. If you step through the game using the slider with the arrow keys the troll speak is not displayed. It is displayed if you scroll down in the game information panel using the arrow keys.

almost 5 years ago

That's... a feature. The troll's sayings are (supposed to be) transient, as in "starts a war and moves on leaving as little proof as possible". I'm not quite sure what that "scroll down in the game information" procedure is.

almost 5 years ago

Some more Troll Exclamations for you to use/ignore at will: Music: The range of a tuba is around 15 metres. Unlike banjos, chainsaws have a dynamic range. Nobody cries when you slice a banjo. Gaming: You'll never reach my APM. My patreon page is... All your stones are belong to us. Movies: Star Wars sucks. The Fast and Furious franchise is great. Dorothy never left Kansas. There is a spoon. That's a moon, you imbecile. My god, it's full of trolls. I'm a real boy! CG/programming: I have O3 and you don't. D is 3.14 * 10^42 times faster than C++. My beam is wider than yours. My depth is deeper than yours. I exceeded 100Kb successfully. I wrote my NN in Python. Fix it. ezpz Puzzle X is bugged. The leaderboard is bugged. That which does not kill me makes me stranger (Larry Wall, hence the programming section) EDIT: Lewis Carroll was high ;-)

almost 5 years ago

Another observation wrt the overridable parameters such as roadLength, it might be beneficial to have this available in the Options->Manual part of the IDE rather than having to do it in your code. Alongside the game seed. Thoughts?

almost 5 years ago

It can't be done in player code; it's already possible to override as a manual parameter in the IDE. I'm not sure how to push it back from the referee to the IDE/why it isn't already the case.

almost 5 years ago

Just have to compliment you on the Troll Speak. Well played.

almost 5 years ago

Thank you :D Complements welcome too!

almost 5 years ago

As of today, it seems that most players have deterministic AIs on the leaderboard. While this is not a bad thing, when there are only 4 different maps, it is easy to imagine that player A might beat player B by chance on those 4 maps, even if on a wider selection of maps they would be similarly matched. If you keep such a low number of maps, this strengthens the need to beat the current leaderboard and weakens the need to "play well overall". As written on the forum, I believe *beat the leaderboard* is a legitimate design objective. I wouldn't welcome it on all multis, but if this is this multi's originality and focus, I'm fine with it. Choice for you is "how strong to make this focus". I have a slight preference for random maps with a range between the four fixed maps you provided.

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 5 years ago

It's been a week. Moving out of private draft mode to public (still draft).

almost 5 years ago

One more thing. I really liked the the fact that with trhee (four in fact) integers you get the complete image of the actual game's state; No need to historize, It is so concise that it will appeal all types of programmers. Your choice : a simple game for many, or a complicated game for few.

EricSMSO Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 5 years ago

Hi JBM, Your game is refreshing. at last no fog of war. The graphics are ... post modern, but you know I cannot draw aswell. May be I'll ask my son if he can help. - Your insturctions about the end of game are not very clear. I understood the game was over once one of the palyers has no stones left. Instead the game continues and one must continue to play against an opponent with no stone. - I did not find the maximum allotted time. Maybe I am the only one to do a search. By dichotimy I found 60 ms but I guess I am on the edge. - To conclude, I am afraid it will become a big shifumi game once every one has an almost bugfree algorithm.

almost 5 years ago

haha, everyone hates on the fog of war now i don't like fog of war either, but it's funny to see it mentioned everywhere recently

almost 5 years ago

this looks a bit too simplistic as it is, imo the castles should have life points so you don't instantly lose just because the opponent guessed a good sequence vs you. troll gets reset to the middle after it reaches a castle this way it's more similar to a ball game, where the troll is the ball and the castles are the goals also maybe there should be set amount of stones for a set amount of turns? you could get as input "turns_until_stones_get_recharged"? this will be the difficult part to balance maybe if you do offer ways to increase stone count maybe there are better more unique ways to improve but i don't know.

darkhorse64 Unnamed CodinGamer

almost 5 years ago

The castle life points is a great idea. We were looking for ways to trick the system into repeating matches so player bias could actually be exploited, and that's just the correct wrapping for it! I'm not so hot for a stone reinforcement cooldown right now... but who knows :) It *is* an interesting extension.

almost 5 years ago

This looks like a child's game so childish graphics are OK. Please NO fog of war ! The statement should say what the game is. Remove the blurb on the breaking change and say simply what roadLength is for. To be honest, I did not understand anything of it. This text belongs to the comments/forum. Publish: there are already many people on the leaderboard

almost 5 years ago

Thank you for your comments! > Remove the blurb on the breaking change It's obviously not intended to stay ;) Ignore it while it's there if you don't need it, it'll disappear shortly anyway. (nor is the empty protocol section, FTM) It's nice to have people on the leaderboard, but I can't in good conscience publish when I believe a closed solution is around the corner. At least not in the current state.