Fantom

Fantom is an implementation of a generalized version of the board game Scotland Yard.

This implementation is designed specifically as a test-bed for AI research. It does not have any GUI, but there is a simple text-based communication protocol and a Java library for easy development of agents solving the game.

Quick Start

Requirements

Java SE 1.6
Apache Ant

Building and Running Fantom

1. Download the source code:

> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/ondrasej/fantom
> cd fantom

2. Build the source code:

> ant build

3. Run the game:

> ./run.sh data/prague.graph 100 "test-run" \
           java -cp bin  cz.matfyz.aai.fantom.clients.RandomClient PHANTOM ";" \
           java -cp bin cz.matfyz.aai.fantom.clients.RandomClient DETECTIVE

4. Read the documentation to learn how to implement your own agent

> less doc/programming-guide.txt
> less doc/communication-protocol.txt