Re: Robocode robot in Scala + Akka

Hi Fabio,

interesting! Few comments
 - the robocode robot API could be implemented via interfaces, if that
makes your life easier.
   See
https://github.com/robo-code/robocode/tree/master/robocode.api/src/main/java/robocode/robotinterfaces
- the internal communication inside of the robocode engine is also passing
messages. To make it really fast it is only one message per game turn.
   See
https://github.com/robo-code/robocode/blob/master/robocode.core/src/main/java/net/sf/robocode/peer/ExecCommands.java
   See
https://github.com/robo-code/robocode/blob/master/robocode.core/src/main/java/net/sf/robocode/peer/ExecResults.java
   Those messages are synchronous, the robot is blocked between turns.
It could be 10K messages per second.

I would like to ask if you could explain how it behaves in asynchronous
way.
I guess it means that robot would proceed to next round even without any
new command, right ?
Does it mean that you could skip many of the rounds/events ?
Could messages arrive out of order ?
Could you describe consequences of such design for the game play ?
What are the lessons you learned with your colleagues about Akka /
asynchrony ?
Does Akka allow you any new tricks with teams of robots ?

I suggest that you also add your project as new page to http://robowiki.net/

Thanks
Pavel





On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Fabio Oliveira <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I hope this is the right channel to announce that, I was always a Robocode
> fan but I never contributed... What I want to change a little bit today.
>
> I created a robot that uses the Robot API to communicate to a remote
> "pilot", using Scala + Akka.
>
> https://github.com/fbdo/robocode-akka
>
> It was a interesting exercise to make it work, and now I am applying those
> ideas to coach some team members in how to use Akka in a fun way.
>
> Thanks for all the hard work, I hope my small contribution show itself
> useful.
>
> Regards.
> F.
>
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