Some of the visibility questions might not have applied with the original pacman's maze style. The walls were at least one tile thick, mostly 2 tiles thick.
@MartinBüttner yes it seems the small number of very enthusiastic members have rejoined but the huge numbers that took months to gather initially haven't come back for the new proposal.
I have been trying to install my application all morning and just now realized that IIS wasn't even installed. I was on some weird witch hunt with only one thing to go on: error code 1603. Curse you error code 1603!
I bet there is a way to automatically turn Windows features on or off during an installation. Take that, user-who-randomly-disables-features-on-VMs-that-dont-belong-to-you!
@Rainbolt It holds whatever you want it to. It just can't necessarily display arbitrary docs, but Markdown ftw. And yes, we should definitely use GitHub.
A big problem with trying to automate gather/compile of entries would be that nobody standardizes their answers. Code blocks all over the place, languages either not specified or specified in a non-standard way, etc.
Here's another idea - some sort of scoreboard refresh button. Click it, and if you got disqualified you'll know immediately that your post didn't follow the format.
@Geobits ah come on... people edit every single post in KotH to add syntax highlighting... don't tell me no one will go around getting them all in the right format
It doesn't make sense site-wide... but if you say "if your markdown doesn't follow this template, you won't be included in the scoreboard" that should work
I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about right now, but I wish there were a "controller template" which would allow people to write controllers easily.
@PhiNotPi I think we started talking about that the other day. The variables were 1) How will you send information to an entry? 2) How will you receive information from an entry? 3) Single round or multiple rounds per trial? 4) Something I can't remember
If you enforced a strict way of communicating (like stdin stdout), then I imagine making a standardized controller is doable. Just plug in logic for "do this every round" and "score like this every round"
well it's not like that standard doesn't leave some leeway in certain cases. but at least it's unambiguously clear whether there is leeway or whether just half the population has it wrong.
A compiler of English (usually to some other high-level language) is called a 'programmer'. They are usually humans and they can be quite buggy at times. However, the 'programmer's are not able to compile English into another high-level language if the original source is uncomputable. Programmer compilers take more time than other compilers like 'gcc' or so, but they also have abilities to disassemble or decompile high-level language into English.
@NathanMerrill Why don't the controller program give the infomation of all objects in the map each round ? Then the problem become simpler and we could have more fun.
@Geobits that is horrifying, I was mostly concerned about having to golf it, but as no-one else has contributed an answer I won't look as bad if I can't get it right down ;)
I think this is all moot at this point (or almost so). The challenge is up, three answers are posted. What do we actually gain by changing the I/O spec at this point?
Right, but it's generally SOP here not to change challenge specs after posting and receiving answers, unless something's broken and needs to be changed.
That's... odd. Maybe I've done something I don't remember, but my linux box at home works for anything my son's ever clicked on Kongregate, and I'm sure that includes at least one Unity game.