Hi all. We have just released 2025.1.2 squeaking in just in time for Tournament 1. Don’t worry, this will not have any effect on your bots’ performance. These changes are mostly just backend improvements which help us facilitate and monitor the tournament.
Please see the release notes below, or at Release v2025.1.2 · EntelectChallenge/2025-Zooscape · GitHub
2025.1.2 - Logging improvements
Known bugs
The team will be addressing bugs in the coming weeks. Please report any new bugs on the forum.
- Occasional ticks for which the execution time exceeds the duty cycle
New Features
- Add randomised procedural map generation
- Write differential game logs
- Measure execution time of certain routines to log where certain calculations might be too costly
- Extend run scripts to accept more command line arguments for finer control over game engine config when running from the command line
Bugfixes
- Fix bug where game engine crashes when a bot issues an undefined command (Shout out to @WillieTheron who brought this bug to our attention in the forum.)
Features to come
- Phase 2 which includes score streaks, power ups, additional zookeepers and mayhem