Impressions of circuits

[James Mills]

Hey all,

Thought I'd share this little story from our of our circuits users:

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A recent project of mine has reminded me just how much Circuits does to free

the programmer. A good friend and I are designing a game built specifically for

an artificial intelligence to play. The game being a real-time war strategy

game and us being the competitive programmers we are it turned into a personal

challenge between us. Who can make the best AI?

Well the answer is I can but not because of my skill. My friend and I are

fairly well matched in that regard. I won, and will continue to win, because of

the tools I use.

The first day my friend set to work on his main loop and I set to work on

navigation and resource gathering. Day two he's working on hooks and intercepts

while I'm figuring out defense and prioritizing orders. Day three he's finally

getting to work on a TCP client and basic protocol implementation. I'm already

tweaking my strategy and testing my AI.

It went on like that for about a week and a half. On Sunday we played our first

game. My AI had seen extensive testing, had a refined battle strategy and was

very quick to make key decisions. His was green, unrefined and ineffecient. It

was a quick victory.

"""

Enjoy!

cheers

James

James Mills / prologic

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