[Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011

[John Zurawski]

I would like to propose a game programming competition
similar to Corewars. Competitors would write Python scripts that would compete
against the scripts written by other players in a virtual arena. Participants
would write against a high-level API that we provide. It will contain some
low-level operations and enough high-level behaviors that even people with
little Python experience should be able to participate. At the competition
deadline their scripts would be submitted and a tournament would be held where the
scripts written by two players are matched up against each other until a winner
is determined. 


I have such a game idea already in mind. However, I don’t
think the details should be shared outside a group of volunteers. This is to ensure
fairness and build up anticipation for the event. If someone knew too many
details ahead of time that might give them a slight advantage (or at least the
perception of). I think it would also be fun to announce it to everyone at the
same time.


If I understand correctly, we may have the venue at A&M for
Saturday and Sunday. I think this would be best held on Sunday in parallel with
any tutorials. This is so that it does not serve as a distraction from the talks. I think this is a fairly big project, so I would like to
gauge sufficient interest before starting to implement something and organize a group of volunteers. I participated
in a similar competition in the early 90’s held by ACM/IEEE at UT and have been
interested in holding a similar competition of my own since. 
> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:15:43 -0500
> From: bradallen137 at gmail.com
> To: texas at python.org
> Subject: [Texas] brainstorming PyTexas 2011
> 
> >From Wikipedia: "Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by
> which a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by
> amassing a list of ideas spontaneously contributed its members." (See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming)
> 
> Let's use this thread to generate a list of ideas for what might be
> interesting or fun to do at PyTexas 2011, both on and off schedule.
> 
> Who wants to go first?
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