uabc: Ultimate Algorithm Battle - Client

This is the client to participate in Ultimate Algorithm Battles

The client executes your player, and pipes its stdin/stout to the game server over a socket.

This means that your player can be written in any language, and it will work as long as your computer can run it.

Install the executable:

$ npm install -g @socialgorithm/uabc

Verify the installation by running:

$ uabc --version

You'll need to get a valid token from the game server first. Let's assume that our token is 123 for now.

Simply run:

$ uabc -t 123 -f "node player.js"

Where player.js is your player. Another example, if it was a Java program:

$ uabc -t 123 -f "java Player"

You don't need the server running to start the client, it will automatically detect the server and connect to it when it comes up.

uabc provides a sample player that choses valid moves at random. To test it clone this repository and select it as your player:

(Make sure you have already installed uabc)

$ git clone [email protected]:aurbano/uabc.git
$ cd uabc
$ uabc --host localhost:3141 -t token -f "node dist/sample/player.js"