Introduction

Stechec2 is client-server turn-based strategy game match maker used during the French national computing contest: Prologin.

Each year, we create a new game for the final and candidates are asked to develop an AI in 36 hours for this specific game. The final ranking will be determined at the end with a tournament where each AIs compete against each other.

Hence, stechec2 must be very flexible to accommodate with different games, and compatible with multiple programming languages such as: C, C++, Python, Java, Ocaml, Haskell, Rust, etc. We also need to isolate matches to share resources amongst untrusted code execution, and distribute them evenly over our own infrastructure.