Hannibal

Intro

The Hannibal AI/Bot is a new approach to reduce the complexity of programming a bot for 0 A.D. It was started in February 2014 by agentx. This page will document the development process and parts of the source, explains major concepts and provides tips & tricks. The forum has already a few posts discussing the bot's features.

In particular the bot will use:

• a state machine to handle game phases
  like village, town, city, attack, defense, reconstruction, etc.

• a triple store to link features of the cultures
  like who can gather fields, can a healer melee?

• a simple query language to retrieve information from the triple store
  "food.grain GATHEREDBY WITH costs.metal = 0, costs.stone = 0, costs.wood = 0 SORT < costs.food"

• a plugin system describing behaviour of groups of units
  (grain-picker, hunter, warrior, miner, etc)

• a domain specific language used for the plugins
  to allow non programmer to define a group's behaviour

Plugins

Scratchpad

(just a section for thoughts and experiments)