Running robocode from the web

[Jean Felipe Felsky]

Hello everyone,

I participate on the Virtual Combat competition last year during the
Codefest on the IT-BHU and they had a page where we could submit our jar
file and automatically a fight against a given team was executed. If this
battle went fine (my jar file was ok), I could then challenge any other
team through the website. All challenges went to a queue and one by one
they were automatically executed and the record of the battle was let
available for download. There was also a ranking system that when you
challenge a team and won, you would get the position of that team. Let's
say, you are number 34 on the ranking and won a challenge against the
number 15, you go to number 15 and the other team goes down to 16. If you
lose nothing changes.
I wanted to know if anyone has ever seen a webpage like that and if there
is something like that available for download. If there isn't I would like
a few tips on how to get started on the development. I have never run
robocode from an external system and I'm not very good on web programming..
but I'm willing to learn and really want to have something like that
available primary for some friends and AI students and to everyone later...
who knows...

Many thanks and kind regards,
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[flemmingnlarsen]

Hi Jean,

You are right. The Codefest (http://www.itbhu.ac.in/codefest/) did have a competition last year (2011) with their own variant of Robocode that includes obstacles on the battle field, and their own system for uploading .jar files (robot packages) to their web-site.

This is not a part of the main branch of Robocode, even though it would be great to have new features like obstacles on the battle fields etc.

It might be possible to get the source code from Codefest to continue the code. Perhaps it would also make sense to integrate into the main branch of Robocode. But it might require some work to take other features of Robocode into account. Codefest was running a special type of competition, where the standard Robocode is typically used with the RoboRumble, where robots gets ranked all the time, and where participants put a link to their robot on a participant page instead of uploading the robots.

Cheers,
- Flemming

Post by Jean Felipe Felsky
Hello everyone,
I participate on the Virtual Combat competition last year during the
Codefest on the IT-BHU and they had a page where we could submit our jar
file and automatically a fight against a given team was executed. If this
battle went fine (my jar file was ok), I could then challenge any other
team through the website. All challenges went to a queue and one by one
they were automatically executed and the record of the battle was let
available for download. There was also a ranking system that when you
challenge a team and won, you would get the position of that team. Let's
say, you are number 34 on the ranking and won a challenge against the
number 15, you go to number 15 and the other team goes down to 16. If you
lose nothing changes.
I wanted to know if anyone has ever seen a webpage like that and if there
is something like that available for download. If there isn't I would like
a few tips on how to get started on the development. I have never run
robocode from an external system and I'm not very good on web programming..
but I'm willing to learn and really want to have something like that
available primary for some friends and AI students and to everyone later...
who knows...
Many thanks and kind regards,
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[Jean Felipe Felsky]

Hello Fleeming,

Thank you very much for your response. I could get in touch with the people
from Codefest and we will try to put it online together.

Kind regards,

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:14 PM, flemmingnlarsen <

Post by flemmingnlarsen
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Hi Jean,
You are right. The Codefest (http://www.itbhu.ac.in/codefest/) did have a
competition last year (2011) with their own variant of Robocode that
includes obstacles on the battle field, and their own system for uploading
.jar files (robot packages) to their web-site.
This is not a part of the main branch of Robocode, even though it would be
great to have new features like obstacles on the battle fields etc.
It might be possible to get the source code from Codefest to continue the
code. Perhaps it would also make sense to integrate into the main branch of
Robocode. But it might require some work to take other features of Robocode
into account. Codefest was running a special type of competition, where the
standard Robocode is typically used with the RoboRumble, where robots gets
ranked all the time, and where participants put a link to their robot on a
participant page instead of uploading the robots.
Cheers,
- Flemming

Post by Jean Felipe Felsky
Hello everyone,
I participate on the Virtual Combat competition last year during the
Codefest on the IT-BHU and they had a page where we could submit our jar
file and automatically a fight against a given team was executed. If this
battle went fine (my jar file was ok), I could then challenge any other
team through the website. All challenges went to a queue and one by one
they were automatically executed and the record of the battle was let
available for download. There was also a ranking system that when you
challenge a team and won, you would get the position of that team. Let's
say, you are number 34 on the ranking and won a challenge against the
number 15, you go to number 15 and the other team goes down to 16. If you
lose nothing changes.
I wanted to know if anyone has ever seen a webpage like that and if there
is something like that available for download. If there isn't I would

like

Post by Jean Felipe Felsky
a few tips on how to get started on the development. I have never run
robocode from an external system and I'm not very good on web

programming..

Post by Jean Felipe Felsky
but I'm willing to learn and really want to have something like that
available primary for some friends and AI students and to everyone

later...

Post by Jean Felipe Felsky
who knows...
Many thanks and kind regards,
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