Talk:Remote agent

Event parameters?

The color and ball events need to describe the color of their respective subjects; how is this done? –Donal Fellows 16:34, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Wow, I wrote this a while ago. I'll have to look at it again and get back to you. I vaguely recall trying to write an implementation, then discovering a flaw in the spec. --Michael Mol 19:49, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Hm. At a quick glance, I'd guess ORing the relevant events with one of four values situated in the high nibble would do it. However, it might make more sense to create four unique events each for 'color' and 'ball', to keep them in the printable range. Adjust to suit; nobody's written any code. --Michael Mol 19:53, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Is this a multi-user game? I mean, is the world shared globally among all users, or is there only a single agent per world? In the latter case, a new world would be created whenever a client connects, and this world would last only for that client's session, right? --Abu 11:04, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

It's not yet clearly enough described, so… “maybe” has got to be the answer. –Donal Fellows 13:24, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

For this one, single-user makes the most sense, I think. I'll have to get back later today and fix some problems with the task description. --Michael Mol 13:28, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

"There may be 'wall' sectors within the area": Are there any specific rules for that? A percentage, like for the balls? How should the walls be arranged? The spec says that closed areas are prohibited, but in the extreme case this may still end up as a maze. --Abu 11:30, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Now I have a working server implementation (see the task). Concerning the color events, I propose to use upper- and lowercase characters: R G Y B for the fields (sectors), and r g y b for the ball. In an analog way, if we say that uppercase characters stand for sector attributes, and lowercase for ball attributes, and use some punctuation characters for special operations, the following makes sense to me:

name	type	character	decimal	hex
forward	command	^	94	0x5E
turn right	command	>	62	0x3E
turn left	command	<	60	0x3C
get	command	@	64	0x40
drop	command	!	33	0x21
game over	event	+	43	0x2B
stop	event	.	46	0x2E
color red	event	R	82	0x52
color green	event	G	71	0x47
color yellow	event	Y	89	0x59
color blue	event	B	66	0x42
ball red	event	r	114	0x72
ball green	event	g	103	0x67
ball yellow	event	y	121	0x79
ball blue	event	b	98	0x62
bump	event	|	124	0x7C
sector full	event	S	83	0x53
agent full	event	A	65	0x41
no ball in sector	event	s	115	0x73
no ball in agent	event	a	97	0x61