Bank is a fun dice game. If you've never played it then watch the video. This program is designed to automate the game process programmatically and allow others to come up with a strategy and write it into code and compete against other people's strategies to see who has the best strategy. An example of a very simple strategy would be: If the dice has been rolled 5 times then call "Bank" (cash out). This is the strategy of player dummy that you can view in players/dummy.rb as an example of how to start writing your own strategy.
To write your own strategy all you need to do is follow the pattern of the dummy.rb file in the /players directory. It's important that your class name and file name are the same. Also update your name in the initializer method. When the game runs it will automatically load all the strategies from the /players directory and make them compete against each other, so you don't need to worry about changing any code anywhere else.
Use the game_state in the cash_out? method and your player's score which can be accessed inside the cash_out? method by calling either score or self.score. There is an other_players array which includes all players excluding yourself and lists them in descending order by their current place in the game (1st place is at the top, last place at the bottom).
You can run the game via bash with ./play.sh or ruby bank.rb.
Don't cheat by looking at other players strategy. Don't change any variables on the game_state.
You can run any number of games in a series and it will calculate the win rate, score($$) at the end of the game, and the average placement_score which is calculated by how well you placed on the leaderboard (higher is better). See bank.rb to see how to run a GameSeries.
- You might need to install bundler with
gem install bundlerand then runbundle install. - You might need to install pry globally on your ruby version as well.
gem install pry.