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[Fwd: please circulate to your respective orgs]


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Thank You,
Jon Welters
Computer Network and Systems Administration
Treasurer - MTU Linux Users Group
Treasurer - MTU Competition Rifle Team
Secretary - Husky Amateur Radio Club KD8ELJ
Coordinator- Student Organizations in Computer Science
Michigan Technological University
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The Women in Computing Sciences (WiCS) organization has talked about doing an AI Game Programming Competition here at Tech for a while now.  Since this is a fairly large scale project, we're asking if members of other organizations would be interested in working on this.  Here are the basics of what we'd like to do:

Time frame:  We want to run the competition before the end of the semester.

Competition Framework: The idea is based on the MechMania programming competition held at UIUC every year ( http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2006/mechmania_history.php).  First, we create a storyline and develop a game based on that.  We'll program in Java.  The game will be client/server and turn based.  Teams write an AI client for their player(s).  Each game goes until one team wins (however that is determined) or for a certain number of turns.  The rules of the game are kept secret until the API is released, a small number of days before the competition.  The competition is held as a double elimination tournament, pitting the AI's against each other.

Intended Audience:  Anyone who can read an API and program in Java.  We may invite NMU students to come.


What we need:
Programmers --- to program the server in Java
Graphics --- we want this to look cool
Game Development -- we have to figure out the story and rules for the game
Promotion -- we need to make posters, hype it up, and get the word out
Organizers -- we need to reserve rooms, order food, get prizes, t-shirts, etc

If you would like to help out with any of this, please e-mail WiCS Chairperson, Janae Foss (jnfoss@xxxxxxxxx), by this Friday, February 23.  Based on interest we will determine whether or not we will be able to do this.


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