Domain Query Interface In Ruby: A Code Challenge Takeaway
Participated in code challenge despite illness, focusing on Domain Query Interface & entity-based operations. Learned to optimize game state & debugging info for reproducibility.
Despite being ill for the majority of Dec 19th to Jan 6th runtime, I had fun participating in this code challenge, and even got a decent place (very low gold). Overall is seemed that significantly more people were participating, and the competition was tough. My strategy was simple - be aggressive in sporing towards opponents and tentacling them to death. I figured worst case, with symmetric play, this is always a draw. Besides these easy cases of immediate aggression, I was focusing on harvesting A protein to out-grow my opponents. Naturally, this led to an edge-case weakeness where if no As...