{"id":89111,"date":"2016-04-12T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=89111"},"modified":"2016-04-12T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:24:14","slug":"code-the-best-bomberman-ai-and-win-a-share-of-r200000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/89111-code-the-best-bomberman-ai-and-win-a-share-of-r200000","title":{"rendered":"Code the best Bomberman AI and win a share of R200,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entelect has announced that its\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/challenge.entelect.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 AI challenge<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is based on\u00a0the 1980s video game Bomberman.<\/p>\n<p>Four players will be placed in an unfamiliar environment, and must find their way through a maze while avoiding enemies and bombs.<\/p>\n<p>The person who survives to the end with the most points is the winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we are catering for and providing sample bots for the following languages: C++, C#, F#, Java, Node.JS, and Python, whilst the reference bot is coded in C#,\u201d said Timothy Kroon, general manager of professional services at Entelect.<\/p>\n<p>Entelect has changed the R200,000 prize pool distribution, so that the top 8 finalists get prizes. The top three will receive R70,000, R35,000, and R25,000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are interested in building a graphical user interface (GUI) for the game, a R15,000 prize for the best GUI is up for grabs in Entelect\u2019s Gooey Award challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The competition closes on 2 September, with a play-off event on 17 September.<\/p>\n<p>The grand finale will be held on 8 October at the rAge main stage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ir5eNssOT1w\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161320-code-a-winning-bomberman-ai-and-get-r70000.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Quantum Break on PC is broken\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88851-quantum-break-on-pc-is-broken.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Quantum Break on PC is broken<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Black villain in Uncharted 4 speaks in a terrible Afrikaans accent\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88933-black-villain-in-uncharted-4-speaks-in-a-terrible-afrikaans-accent.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Black villain in Uncharted 4 speaks in a terrible Afrikaans accent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The Division Incursions trailer released\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89025-the-division-incursions-trailer-released.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Division Incursions trailer released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entelect has announced that its 2016 AI challenge is based on the 1980s video game Bomberman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":89097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,6986,18011,5767,10609],"class_list":["post-89111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-ai","tag-bomberman","tag-entelect","tag-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}