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Capture The Flag

Capture The Flag (CTF) is a competition about building adaptive commanders, run within The AI Sandbox™ and organized by AiGameDev.com. Write your commander AI to issue orders to your team of bots, trying to adapt to defeat the enemy team on a variety of levels.

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Participate!

Learn everything you need to know to enter the competition. Register for the competition and learn how to submit them once they are ready to compete!

DEADLINE: February 11th 2013

Getting Started

Download a starter kit, follow these instructions and watch your bots run circles around the opposition in no time at all.

Supported By

Guerrilla Games, developers of the KILLZONE series with its highly acclaimed bots, is supporting the competition, providing prizes and hiring AI programmers!

Game Mechanics

Learn more about the gameplay used in this competition. Find out how this competition has been setup to reflect the requirements typically placed on Game AI in today's AAA titles.

Resources

Jumpstart your commander with our growing collection of guides, tutorials and videos. Join the discussions in the live chat and on the forums for the latest news and strategy talk.

Current Results

View the latest competition results! Find out who is number one and who the runner ups are.

News & Updates

Capture The Flag Phase #3: The Results

Alex J. Champandard on February 16, 2013

The CTF AI Competition had ambitious goals to drive forward the field of Game AI by challenging developers to write AI commanders for a tactical objective-based game. It wasn't until this final round that this potential was fulfilled, revealing some [...]

CTF Update 1.7 and 1.7.1 Release Notes

Alex J. Champandard on January 15, 2013

This release adds bug fixes and minor gameplay changes for the Phase 3 of the Capture the Flag competition. Gameplay changes include tweaks to the reaction rate of bots to events and the filtering out of consecutive waypoints that are [...]

Capture the Flag Phase #2: The Results

Alex J. Champandard on January 10, 2013

The CTF AI Competition was created as a programming challenge that reflects the development of AI for AAA video games. Competitors were required to write commanders to control between 4 and 15 bots in a team-based game of Capture The [...]