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WHack2025 Project - Hot N Cold

Robots start at a given house and have a destination house to reach in the shortest amount of time.

Robots are designed to travel as follows:

Avoid traffic jams
If multiple routes are available of similar length, evenly distribue traffic down the routes
Avoid deadlocks where possible
Travel on the right side of the road

Situations

Robots may get stuck in traffic jams
The world can be modified to make it so that there is no available path to the destination
Blockages may occur randomly on roads, denoted by red cells
Some robots/cars may intentionally and temporarily cause a blockage that forces other robots to explicitly avoid the area
Terrain is generated at random

Constraints

Robots cannot travel off-road
No two robots can occupy the same tile (note, this is technically adjustable in the code)

Adjustable parameters

Time taken to traverse edges
Probability of a robot spawning at a home in a given tick
Probability of a robot causing a blockage when stuck in a traffic jam in a given tick
Width and height of the grid
Density of the roads on the grid
Density of houses on the roads
If stuck at a cell unable to move, how many ticks to wait until the next check (this reduces lag)
Probability of a blockage spawning on a given road tile in a given tick

Controls

Many speeds can be adjusted with constants at the top of files.

Click a cell to mark it as permanently blocked.

Hit S to toggle robot spawning.

The numbers in the top left are the attempted robot spawns and the number of successful robot arrivals (at their destination). Note that the first number if attempted - if a robot is spawned and in doing so causes an immediate conflict, it is despawned.