Third Party Resources

Below is a list of useful and/or fun resources that were created by the Halite community. Especially popular resources will be 'ed.

Tutorials

• Machine Learning Starter Bot by brianvanleeuwen
• Running Your Halite Bot from an IDE by the Halite team
• So you've Improved the Random Bot. Now what? by nmalaguti
• Building a Good Machine Learning Bot by KalraA

Strategy Writeups

• Early, Mid, and Late Game Strategy by nmalaguti
• How Your Starting Position Impacts Your Bot's Performance by nmalaguti
• Perimeter Optimization by Sydriax

Tools

• Cloudbots: locally test your bot against nmalaguti's
• Environment: halite environment SWIG wrapper
• Environment: multi-featured game environment clone
• Local tournament manager
• Visualizer: web visualizer with aws s3 hosting, extra stats, and easy linking
• Visualizer: local 3D visualizer
• Visualizer: local auto-reloading visualizer
• Halint: load in replays and analyse gameplay for obvious mistakes

Mini Competitions

• Single player expansion competition

Alternate Starter Packages

• C#: more powerful starter package
• Python: asyncio timeout-based starter package
• Python: Distributed Evolutionary Algorithm (DEAP) starter package
• Python: numpy matrix oriented starter package

Replay File Dumps

• December 22, 1583 replays of diamond tier bots
• December 1, 5GB of @erdman, @djma, and @daniel-shields