Pacman Agent

A template for coding a pacman agent.

Setting up the environment

1. Copy or clone the code from this framework to create your Pacman Agent, e.g., git clone git@github.com:jsego/pacman-agent.git
2. Go into pacman-agent folder, cd pacman-agent/
3. Run git submodule update --init --remote to pull the last pacman-contest
4. Create a virtual environment, e.g., python3.8 -m venv venv
5. Activate the virtual environment with source venv/bin/activate
6. Go to the pacman-contest folder and install the requirements:
   • cd pacman-contest/
   • pip install -r requirements.txt
   • pip install -e .

Coding a new agent

In the root folder do the following:

1. Create in myTeam.py a class with the name of your agent that inherits from CaptureAgent, e.g. class ReflexCaptureAgent(CaptureAgent):
2. In the new class, override the def choose_action(self, game_state): function to return the best next action (check the given source code example).
3. (Optional) Add any other functions to the class for reasoning / learning and improving your agents decision which could also use other code sources in the same folder.

To debug the agent you can run capture.py between the baselineTeam and your current agent:

1. cd pacman-contest/src/contest/
2. python capture.py -r baselineTeam -b ../../../myTeam.py