Moving AI Lab

Snakebird/Anhinga AIIDE 2020 Artifact

Anhinga is a clone of the SnakeBird game for research purposes. It supports most of the features of the original game, but also is designed for research purposes. The game includes support for:

Near-complete support for game elements:

• Up to 4 snakes (also the maximum used in-game)
• Support for spikes, ground, fruit
• Up to 4 objects (all levels except SnakeBird Primer levels 41 & 42 are supported)
• Support for pushing objects, other snakes. Minor inconsistencies in commercial version made consistent in our implementation
• Portals for objects and snakes

Advanced features:

• API allows solver for finding solutions
• Ability to tween between frames for animation purposes
• Ability to export animation frames to .svg
• Integrated EPCG for incremental design changes
• Integrated editor (currently under development)

Papers:

• AIIDE demo paper (draft)
• AIIDE full paper (draft)

Anhinga is implemented as part of the HOG2 code base.

Anhinga public artifact resources for evaluation:

• Main project page, with a description and playable levels.
• Private page (not for public distribution) containing all SnakeBird / SnakeBird Primer Levels (note: a subset of these will be extracted for the demo - see below)
• SnakeBird Class documentation.
• Implementation: SnakeBird.h
• Implementation: SnakeBird.cpp
• Implementation: Code for demo, including solver, EPCG implementation, and editor.
• GitHub repository for HOG2
• HOG2 documentation (currently under revision)

Resources in progress

• Level editor (Not yet polished/feature complete.)