Team Pixel -> Pixelated 2nd place beginner braket BattleSnake2019

Missed the tournament? Watch it now!

Note - I have made this repo opensource but have removed some of my secret weapons to not give the BattleSnake2020 competitors a leg up 😃

Here is a write up of my journey to BattleSnake 2019. Some implementation details / ideas can be found here.

Note - I was also in the process of switching to oop so the code is sparatic as its an unfinished process

A Battlesnake AI written in Python.

Visit https://github.com/battlesnakeio/community/blob/master/starter-snakes.md for API documentation and instructions for running your AI.

WARNING - As of January 2020 python 2.7 is being deprecated. Pixleated was written with 2.7 so an upgrade will be required or bad things could happed.

You will need...

• a working Python 2.7 development environment (getting started guide)
• experience deploying Python apps to Heroku
• pip to install Python dependencies

Resources used

Amits A* Pages
Noahs BattleSnake
Python A* Pathfinding (binary heap)
BattleSnake Docs

Running the Snake Locally

1. Fork this repo.

2. Clone repo to your development environment:

~git clone [email protected]:<your github username>/starter-snake-python.git~

3. Install dependencies using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run local server:

python app/main.py

5. Test your snake by sending a curl to the running snake

curl -XPOST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "hello": "world"}' http://localhost:8080/start

Deploying to Heroku

1. Create a new Heroku app:

~heroku create [APP_NAME]~

2. Deploy code to Heroku servers:

git push heroku master

3. Open Heroku app in browser:

heroku open

or visit http://APP_NAME.herokuapp.com.

Useful commands / tools

1. View server logs with the heroku logs command:

heroku logs --tail
heroku logs -n 500 <- can be any value to display logs 

2. Output to file and console command:

python app/main.py | tee output.txt

3. Using nodemon for live reloads:

• install nodemon

npm install -g nodemon

• Run snake

nodemon --exec python main.py