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Examples

Here are some example games, one recorded from a battle between five Postman bots (from the Hash-Haskell team) and the rest recorded from one-on-one battles with the Postman bot. In the one-on-one battles, the challenger is always 'a', and Postman is always robot 'b', unless the game file indicates otherwise using the following convention:

otherbot_b-vs-postman_a

which, in the case of this example, means otherbot is 'b' and postman is 'a'.

File types

Suffix	Kind
`.game`	Game file -- the complete history of a game
`.plain.txt`	ASCII text visualization
`.color.txt`	ASCII text visualization of a game w/ embedded ANSI color

Viewers

The simple Perl script view-text-visualization.pl can be used to play back a visualization on a dumb terminal. For example:

perl view-text-visualization.pl postman-5-way.plain.txt

A C-based viewer, view2-text-visualization.c allows for fine-grained control over the playback speed. Its sole argument is the inter-frame delay, specified in milliseconds. You pipe the text to be played back into its standard input:

./view2-text-visualization 300 < postman-5-way.plain.txt

A pre-compiled Linux binary is provided, or you may compile it yourself.

There is also an Emacs mode for viewing ASCII visualizations, animate-ascii.el. To use it:

Load the mode into Emacs: M-x load-file animate-ascii.el
Open an ASCII visualization: C-x C-f file
Play the visualization: M-x animate-ascii

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