Island Rescue Mission

Authors:

• Mohammad Bilal
• John Cho
• Ahsan Muzammil

Product Description

This product is an exploration command center for the Island serious game.

• The ca.mcmaster.se2aa4.island.team107.Explorer class implements the command center, used to compete with the others.
• The ca.mcmaster.se2aa4.island.team107.Runner class allows one to run the command center on a specific map.

Strategy Description

The exploration approach utilizes a comprehensive grid search technique to methodically scan the entire island, identifying inlets and locating the emergency site.

Sample Execution

Here is a graphical representation of a sample execution using the ./maps/map10.json map.

sample_execution.mp4

How to Compile and Run

Compiling the project:

bilal@mohd % mvn clean package
...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  0.960 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2024-01-20T18:26:43-05:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
bilal@mohd % 

This creates one jar file in the target directory, named after the team identifier.

As the project is intended to run in the competition arena, this jar is not executable.

Run the project

The project is not intended to be started by the user, but instead to be part of the competition arena. However, one might one to execute their command center on local files for testing purposes.

To do so, we ask maven to execute the Runner class, using a map provided as parameter:

bilal@mohd % mvn exec:java -q -Dexec.args="./maps/map03.json"

It creates three files in the outputs directory:

• _pois.json: the location of the points of interests
• Explorer_Island.json: a transcript of the dialogue between the player and the game engine
• Explorer.svg: the map explored by the player, with a fog of war for the tiles that were not visited.