Snow College Coding Competitions
Snow College Engineering Department hosts annual coding competitions where students can showcase their programming skills and compete with others. The competitions involve using an API to interact with different games and scenarios. On this page, you can find the information about the previous and current coding competitions, as well as the links to the GitHub repositories and the online games.
2025: Badger Clan
Badger Clan is our newest coding challenge where players build AI strategies to manage a clan of badgers in a resource-rich but dangerous environment. Your badgers must gather food, defend territory, and expand their population against competing clans. Success requires balancing resource management with tactical decisions as you guide your clan to dominance through careful API interactions and strategic planning.
2024: Space Wars
Space Wars puts you in command of a fleet in an interstellar conflict. You must strategically deploy your ships, manage resources, and outmaneuver your opponents across a dynamic galactic battlefield. The game challenges you to balance offensive tactics with defensive positioning as you expand your territory and upgrade your fleet. Using the provided API, you'll need to analyze the battlefield and execute commands to defeat rival fleets.
2023: Mars Rover
Mars Rover is a game where you have to control a rover and a helicopter on the surface of Mars. You have to use your programming skills and the information you get from the server to find the most efficient path to the target(s) before your opponents. You can join a game, explore the map, move your vehicles, and check the game status using the API provided.
2022: Hungry Game
Hungry Game is a multi-player game where you compete to eat pills and survive. The game has two modes: pill mode and battle mode. In pill mode, you try to eat as many pills as possible, which increase in value as they decrease in number. After all the pills are eaten, the players enter battle mode. In battle mode, you try to eat other players and reduce their health to zero.
2021: Risk
Risk is a game where you can test your skills of strategy and tactics against other players. In this game, you will control regions and try to expand your territory by conquering neighboring regions. You will have to strategize how to move your armies to defend your spaces on the board, and also attack your neighbors.
2020: Game Of Life
The Game of Life Coding Challenge is based on the cellular automaton devised by John Horton Conway in 1970. In the game, you can create and explore different configurations of cells on a grid. In this game, you will register your name and token, and receive a board with some live and dead cells. You will then update the board according to the rules of the game, and send it back to the server. You will also compete with other players to see who can complete the most generations of the game.
