The Fourth Dresden General Game Playing Competition took place at the Faculty of Computer Science of TU-Dresden on 2nd April 2009. Seven student teams participated with their players. Players had to compete in 9 matches of 6 different games. 42 matches were played in total. The player named PlayGrrr developed by Martin Schulz, Nguyen Sy Hiep, Nguyen The Duy, and Nicolas Jean won the competition with a total of 708 points (out of 900 possible points).
Participants
The following teams participated in the competition. (The names link to slides about the respective player.)
- PlayGrrr
- Martin Schulz, Nguyen Sy Hiep, Nguyen The Duy, Nicolas Jean
- Pinky und Brain
- Paul Grunewald, Robert Stelzmann
- Informafiosi
- Norbert Manthey, Norbert Schultz, David Müller
- SGPlayer
- Stefan Schlott, Georg Püschel
- GLaDOS
- Diego Alexander Rojas Paez, Kien Ngugen Trung
- NotSure
- Marcel Höhlig, Elias Müller, Jakob Hasse
- <WTSC> Wet TShirt Contest
- Gerald Fest, Johannes Bachmann, Sebastian Kiehne, Jens Grünberg
- LuckyLemming
- This is a player developed by Stefan Diestelhorst, Eva Wagner and Martin Günther from the 2005/06 GGP course. The player was just thrown in for comparison. It can be downloaded at Martin's webpage.
Scoreboard
| Team |
Sum |
Scores for single matches |
| Incredible |
Snake |
Bidding-Tic-Tac-Toe |
Kalaha |
3-player Tic-Tac-Toe |
Cooperation |
| PlayGrrr |
708 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
58 |
50 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
| Pinky und Brain |
637 |
45 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
42 |
50 |
0 |
100 |
100 |
| Informafiosi |
596 |
75 |
50 |
0 |
50 |
36 |
85 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
| SGPlayer |
513 |
75 |
100 |
100 |
0 |
50 |
88 |
0 |
0 |
100 |
| GLaDOS |
442 |
45 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
61 |
36 |
0 |
100 |
100 |
| NotSure |
439 |
75 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
64 |
0 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
| LuckyLemming |
322 |
100 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
60 |
| <WTSC> Wet TShirt Contest |
298 |
45 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
39 |
64 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
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.
Incredible
- Description
- A single player game that is a mixture of blocks world and a simple maze.
- Game rules
- incredible_2009.gdl
- Matches
-
Snake
- Description
- A single-player game where the goal is to steer a snake through a maze eating frogs on the way.
- Game rules
- games/snake_2009.gdl
- Matches
-
Bidding-Tic-Tac-Toe
- Description
- A variant of Tic-Tac-Toe where you bid money to get the right to move.
- Game rules
- bidding-tictactoe.gdl
- Matches
-
Kalaha
- Description
- A two-player game with alternating moves. A game of the mancala family.
- Game rules
- kalaha_2009.gdl
- Matches
-
3-player Tic-Tac-Toe
- Description
- A 3 player version of Tic-Tac-Toe played one 5x5 sphere, where the goal is to get four in a row.
- Game rules
- tictactoe_3player.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-2009.gdl
- Matches
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