The Third Dresden General Game Playing Competition took place at the Faculty of Computer Science of TU-Dresden on 13th February 2008. Ten student teams participated with their players. Players had to compete in 7 matches of 6 different games. 48 matches were played in total. The player named LuckyLusor developed by Jan-Henrik Moß and Silvio Tschapke won the competition with a total of 500 points out of 700 possible points.
Some photos of the competition can be found here.
Participants
The following teams took part in the competition.
- LuckyLusor
- Jan-Henrik Moß, Silvio Tschapke
- LaikLee
- Christoph Möbius, Andre Viergutz, Robert Willner
- Gizmo
- Simon Dolle, Jan Kopcsek
- The Architects
- Jens Grünberg, Martin Krebs, Christoph Schmidt, Ole Rixmann
- BEATle
- Ria Elliger, Katrin Blei, Thomas Neumann, Eric Neumann
- N00B
- Sebastian Seifert, Stephan Krauß, Tim Holzhäuser
- Taktflanke
- Peter Steinke, Toni Dietze, Daniel Schemala, Marco Geißler
- Karrar
- Anees ul Mehdi, Fareed Arif
- Play-and-Win
- Md. Abu Naser Masud, Dengji Zhao, Ilham Kurnia
- General of Game Playing
- Johannes Bauer
Scoreboard
Team |
Sum |
Scores for single matches |
Asteroids |
Euler squares |
Abalone |
Cooperation |
Chinese Checkers |
Sheep and Wolf (1) |
Sheep and Wolf (2) |
LuckyLusor |
500 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
50 |
50 |
100 |
0 |
laikLee |
490 |
100 |
55 |
50 |
60 |
25 |
100 |
100 |
Gizmo |
467 |
50 |
100 |
50 |
100 |
100 |
0 |
67 |
The Architects |
361 |
100 |
11 |
50 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
BEATle |
361 |
0 |
11 |
50 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
100 |
N00B |
355 |
100 |
55 |
50 |
50 |
0 |
100 |
0 |
Taktflanke |
272 |
100 |
22 |
100 |
50 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Karrar |
250 |
50 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
50 |
0 |
100 |
Play-and-Win |
225 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
25 |
100 |
0 |
General of Game Playing |
210 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
60 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
Note that scores in this table may not match the scores in the matches below if a player submitted illegal moves or did not send a move in time.
Games
The following games were played.
Asteroids
- Description
- A single-player game where the goal is to steer a space ship such that it stops at a certain location.
- Game rules
- asteroids.gdl
- Matches
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Euler squares
- Description
- A single-player game with the goal of coloring cells of two 3x3 grids with certain constraints.
- Game rules
- eulersquares.gdl
- Matches
-
Abalone
- Description
- A two player game on a hexagonal board. The first player to push two of the opponents pieces from the board wins.
- Game rules
- abalone_small.gdl
- Matches
-
Cooperation
- Description
- A very simple two player game where both players can earn 100 points but only if they cooperate.
- Game rules
- 2player-cooperation.gdl
- Matches
-
Chinese Checkers
- Description
- The well known board game.
- Game rules
-
- Matches
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Sheep and wolf
- Description
- A asymmetric two player game played on a checkers board. The goal of the sheep is to make the wolf unmovable.
- Game rules
- sheep_and_wolf.gdl
- Matches
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Slides about the players