Authors: Gunnar Noordbruis, Toine Hulshof, Rick van der Wal Special thanks to: Aviad Sar-Shalom, Daniel Rotem, Gabrielle Marmur, Mira Finkelstien
Curve Fever is a popular computer game for 2-4 players.
"Each player spawns as a dot at a random spot on the playing field, move at a constant speed. Each player has the ability to turn left or right, although the turning speed is limited such that sharp turns are not possible. As the dot travels across the playing field, it draws a permanent, solid line in its wake, in the color of that player. When the dot collides with any section of line or the boundary of the playing field, the player instantly loses, although the line remains in the playing field until the end of the game. The game becomes increasingly difficult as more of the playing field is blocked off by lines. Other players may try to draw barriers to block the path of other players, forcing them into a collision. However, as the lines are being drawn, gaps are occasionally being generated that can be used to escape a section of the map that has been blocked off. The game is won when all but one of the players has collided." - Wikipedia
We wrote this project based on an open-source python implementation of Curve fever using the pygame library. The original implementation can be found in this repository, and the implementation that features a minimax and deep learning agent can be found here.
Clone this repository to your local machine with
git clone https://github.com/Tortoaster/CurveFever.git
while in the project directory, run
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
to install all dependencies. After that, you can train the NEAT player with
python3 neat_threaded_main.py
Which will generate .pickle files in the /static folder.
These can be loaded in /modules/players/neat_player.py to use them.
By default, the program uses our latest successful agent.
To play the game, run
python3 main.py
Choose at least 2 players and start playing.