Defcon

The aim of the CIG 2009 Defcon AI competition is to see which bot is the best Defcon player. Each bot plays 30 matches against each other bot, in a series of one-on-one matches with bots playing in each of the possible starting territory configurations. The game will run on a limited-information mode (i.e., bots cannot see units hidden by the fog of war) and the victory timer will start no later than 4 hours into the game (additionally to the usual game ending conditions). For each match, the resulting score (standard rules: 2^*kills - own casualties) is recorded for each player. In the end, the player with the highest cumulative score wins. Screenshots are available at http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/about/screenshots.html. The Defcon API has been developed by Imperial College and Introversion Software to allow easy access to all the functions and data required to write a fully functional AI for Introversion´s thermonuclear war simulation Defcon. Interfaces to C++, Java and LUA are available, and the original implementation of the Defcon AI is provided as a starting point. The API is available for free from http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:api, and it works with the demo version of Defcon, which can be downloaded from http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/downloads/.