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Project 3: Ants Vs. SomeBees ants.zip
The bees are coming!
Create a better soldier
With inherit-ants.
Introduction
Important submission note: For full credit,
- Submit with Phase 1 complete by Thursday, March 3 (worth 1 pt).
- Submit with Phase 2 complete by Tuesday, March 8 (worth 1 pt).
- Submit with all phases complete by Thursday, March 10.
Try to attempt the problems in order, as some later problems will depend on earlier problems in their implementation and therefore also when running
ok
tests.The entire project can be completed with a partner.
You can get 1 bonus point by submitting the entire project by Wednesday, March 9.
In this project, you will create a tower defense game called Ants Vs. SomeBees. As the ant queen, you populate your colony with the bravest ants you can muster. Your ants must protect their queen from the evil bees that invade your territory. Irritate the bees enough by throwing leaves at them, and they will be vanquished. Fail to pester the airborne intruders adequately, and your queen will succumb to the bees’ wrath. This game is inspired by PopCap Games’ Plants Vs. Zombies.
This project uses an object-oriented programming paradigm, focusing on material from Chapter 2.5 of Composing Programs. The project also involves understanding, extending, and testing a large program.
When students in the past have tried to implement the functions without thoroughly reading the problem description, they’ve often run into issues. 😱 Read each description thoroughly before starting to code.
Download starter files
The ants.zip archive contains several files, but all of your changes will be made to ants.py
.
ants.py
: The game logic of Ants Vs. SomeBeesants_gui.py
: The original GUI for Ants Vs. SomeBeesgui.py:
A new GUI for Ants Vs. SomeBees.graphics.py
: Utilities for displaying simple two-dimensional animationsutils.py
: Some functions to facilitate the game interfaceucb.py
: Utility functions for CS 61Astate.py
: Abstraction for gamestate for gui.pyassets
: A directory of images and files used bygui.py
img
: A directory of images used byants_gui.py
ok
: The autograderproj3.ok
: Theok
configuration filetests
: A directory of tests used byok
Logistics
The project is worth 24 points. 22 points are for correctness, 1 point is for submitting Phase 1 by the first checkpoint date, and 1 point is for submitting Phase 2 by the second checkpoint date.
Additionally, there are some extra credit point opportunities. You can get 1 EC point for submitting the entire project by Wednesday, March 9, and 2 EC points for submitting the extra credit problem.
Important: In order to receive all of the possible extra credit points for Ants, your implementation of the entire project, including the EC problem, must be submitted by the early submission deadline.
You will turn in the following files:
ants.py
You do not need to modify or turn in any other files to complete the project. To submit the project, run the following command:
python3 ok --submit
You will be able to view your submissions on the Ok dashboard.
For the functions that we ask you to complete, there may be some initial code that we provide. If you would rather not use that code, feel free to delete it and start from scratch. You may also add new function definitions as you see fit.
However, please do not modify any other functions or edit any files not listed above. Doing so may result in your code failing our autograder tests. Also, please do not change any function signatures (names, argument order, or number of arguments).
Throughout this project, you should be testing the correctness of your code. It is good practice to test often, so that it is easy to isolate any problems. However, you should not be testing too often, to allow yourself time to think through problems.
We have provided an autograder called ok
to help you with testing your code and tracking your progress. The first time you run the autograder, you will be asked to log in with your Ok account using your web browser. Please do so. Each time you run ok
, it will back up your work and progress on our servers.
The primary purpose of ok
is to test your implementations.
We recommend that you submit after you finish each problem. Only your last submission will be graded. It is also useful for us to have more backups of your code in case you run into a submission issue. If you forget to submit, your last backup will be automatically converted to a submission.
If you do not want us to record a backup of your work or information about your progress, you can run
python3 ok --local
With this option, no information will be sent to our course servers. If you want to test your code interactively, you can run
python3 ok -q [question number] -i
with the appropriate question number (e.g. 01
) inserted. This will run the tests for that question until the first one you failed, then give you a chance to test the functions you wrote interactively.
You can also use the debugging print feature in OK by writing
print("DEBUG:", x)
which will produce an output in your terminal without causing OK tests to fail with extra output.
The Game
A game of Ants Vs. SomeBees consists of a series of turns. In each turn, new bees may enter the ant colony. Then, new ants are placed to defend their colony. Finally, all insects (ants, then bees) take individual actions. Bees either try to move toward the end of the tunnel or sting ants in their way. Ants perform a different action depending on their type, such as collecting more food or throwing leaves at the bees. The game ends either when a bee reaches the end of the tunnel (you lose), the bees destroy the QueenAnt
if it exists (you lose), or the entire bee fleet has been vanquished (you win).
Core concepts
The Colony. This is where the game takes place. The colony consists of several Place
s that are chained together to form a tunnel where bees can travel through. The colony also has some quantity of food which can be expended in order to place an ant in a tunnel.
Places. A place links to another place to form a tunnel. The player can put a single ant into each place. However, there can be many bees in a single place.
The Hive. This is the place where bees originate. Bees exit the beehive to enter the ant colony.
Ants. Players place an ant into the colony by selecting from the available ant types at the top of the screen. Each type of ant takes a different action and requires a different amount of colony food to place. The two most basic ant types are the HarvesterAnt
, which adds one food to the colony during each turn, and the ThrowerAnt
, which throws a leaf at a bee each turn. You will be implementing many more!
Bees. In this game, bees are the antagonistic forces that the player must defend the ant colony from. Each turn, a bee either advances to the next place in the tunnel if no ant is in its way, or it stings the ant in its way. Bees win when at least one bee reaches the end of a tunnel.
Core classes
The concepts described above each have a corresponding class that encapsulates the logic for that concept. Here is a summary of the main classes involved in this game:
GameState
: Represents the colony and some state information about the game, including how much food is available, how much time has elapsed, where theAntHomeBase
is, and all thePlace
s in the game.Place
: Represents a single place that holds insects. At most oneAnt
can be in a single place, but there can be manyBee
s in a single place.Place
objects have anexit
to the left and anentrance
to the right, which are also places. Bees travel through a tunnel by moving to aPlace
’sexit
.Hive
: Represents the place whereBee
s start out (on the right of the tunnel).AntHomeBase
: Represents the placeAnt
s are defending (on the left of the tunnel). If Bees get here, they win 😦Insect
: A superclass forAnt
andBee
. All insects havehealth
attribute, representing their remaining health, and aplace
attribute, representing thePlace
where they are currently located. Each turn, every activeInsect
in the game performs itsaction
.Ant
: Represents ants. EachAnt
subclass has special attributes or a specialaction
that distinguish it from otherAnt
types. For example, aHarvesterAnt
gets food for the colony and aThrowerAnt
attacksBee
s. Each ant type also has afood_cost
attribute that indicates how much it costs to deploy one unit of that type of ant.Bee
: Represents bees. Each turn, a bee either moves to theexit
of its currentPlace
if thePlace
is notblocked
by an ant, or stings the ant occupying its samePlace
.
Game Layout
Below is a visualization of a GameState. As you work through the unlocking tests and problems, we recommend drawing out similar diagrams to help your understanding.
Object map
To help visualize how all the classes fit together, we’ve also created an object map for you to reference as you work, which you can find here:
Playing the game
The game can be run in two modes: as a text-based game or using a graphical user interface (GUI). The game logic is the same in either case, but the GUI enforces a turn time limit that makes playing the game more exciting. The text-based interface is provided for debugging and development.
The files are separated according to these two modes. ants.py
knows nothing of graphics or turn time limits.
To start a text-based game, run
python3 ants_text.py
To start a graphical game, run
python3 gui.py
When you start the graphical version, a new browser window should appear. In the starter implementation, you have unlimited food and your ants can only throw leaves at bees in their current Place
. Before you complete Problem 2, the GUI may crash since it doesn’t have a full conception of what a Place is yet! Try playing the game anyway! You’ll need to place a lot of ThrowerAnt
s (the second type) in order to keep the bees from reaching your queen.
The game has several options that you will use throughout the project, which you can view with python3 ants_text.py --help
.
usage: ants_text.py [-h] [-d DIFFICULTY] [-w] [--food FOOD]
Play Ants vs. SomeBees
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DIFFICULTY sets difficulty of game (test/easy/normal/hard/extra-hard)
-w, --water loads a full layout with water
--food FOOD number of food to start with when testing
Getting Started Videos
These videos may provide some helpful direction for tackling the coding problems on the project.
To see these videos, you should be logged into your berkeley.edu email.
Phase 1: Basic gameplay
Important submission note: For full credit, submit with Phase 1 complete by Thursday, March 3 (worth 1 pt).
In the first phase you will complete the implementation that will allow for basic gameplay with the two basic Ant
s: the HarvesterAnt
and the ThrowerAnt
.
Problem 0 (0 pt)
Answer the following questions after you have read the entire ants.py
file.
To submit your answers, run:
python3 ok -q 00 -u✂️
If you get stuck while answering these questions, you can try reading through ants.py
again, consult the core concepts/classes sections above, or ask a question in the Question 0 thread on Piazza.
- What is the significance of an Insect’s
health
attribute? Does this value change? If so, how? - Which of the following is a class attribute of the
Insect
class? - Is the
health
attribute of theAnt
class an instance attribute or a class attribute? Why? - Is the
damage
attribute of anAnt
subclass (such asThrowerAnt
) an instance attribute or class attribute? Why? - Which class do both
Ant
andBee
inherit from? - What do instances of
Ant
and instances ofBee
have in common? - How many insects can be in a single
Place
at any given time (before Problem 8)? - What does a
Bee
do during one of its turns? - When is the game lost?
Remember to run:
python3 ok -q 00 -u✂️
A note on unlocking tests: If you’d like to review the unlocking questions after you have completed the unlocking test, you can navigate to (within the
ants
folder), thetests
folder. For example, after unlocking Problem 0, you can review the unlocking test attests/00.py
.
Problem 1 (1 pt)
Part A: Currently, there is no cost for placing any type of Ant
, and so there is no challenge to the game. The base class Ant
has a food_cost
of zero. Override this class attribute for HarvesterAnt
and ThrowerAnt
according to the “Food Cost” column in the table below.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
HarvesterAnt | 2 | 1 |
ThrowerAnt | 3 | 1 |
Part B: Now that placing an Ant
costs food, we need to be able to gather more food! To fix this issue, implement the HarvesterAnt
class. A HarvesterAnt
is a type of Ant
that adds one food to the gamestate.food
total as its action
.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 01 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 01✂️
Try playing the game by running python3 gui.py
. Once you have placed a HarvesterAnt
, you should accumulate food each turn. You can also place ThrowerAnt
s, but you’ll see that they can only attack bees that are in their Place
, making it a little difficult to win.
Problem 2 (1 pt)
In this problem, you’ll complete Place.__init__
by adding code that tracks entrances. Right now, a Place
keeps track only of its exit
. We would like a Place
to keep track of its entrance as well. A Place
needs to track only one entrance
. Tracking entrances will be useful when an Ant
needs to see what Bee
s are in front of it in the tunnel.
However, simply passing an entrance to a Place
constructor will be problematic; we would need to have both the exit and the entrance before creating a Place
! (It’s a chicken or the egg problem.) To get around this problem, we will keep track of entrances in the following way instead. Place.__init__
should use this logic:
- A newly created
Place
always starts with itsentrance
asNone
. - If the
Place
has anexit
, then theexit
’sentrance
is set to thatPlace
.
Hint: Remember that when the
__init__
method is called, the first parameter,self
, is bound to the newly created object
Hint: Try drawing out two
Place
s next to each other if things get confusing. In the GUI, a place’sentrance
is to its right while theexit
is to its left.
Hint: Remember that
Places
are not stored in a list, so you can’t index into anything to access them. This means that you can’t do something likecolony[index + 1]
to access an adjacentPlace
. How can you move from one place to another?
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 02 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 02✂️
Problem 3 (2 pt)
In order for a ThrowerAnt
to throw a leaf, it must know which bee to hit. The provided implementation of the nearest_bee
method in the ThrowerAnt
class only allows them to hit bees in the same Place
. Your job is to fix it so that a ThrowerAnt
will throw_at
the nearest bee in front of it that is not still in the Hive
. This includes bees that are in the same Place
as a ThrowerAnt
Hint: All
Place
s have anis_hive
attribute which isTrue
when that place is theHive
.
Change nearest_bee
so that it returns a random Bee
from the nearest place that contains bees. Your implementation should follow this logic:
- Start from the current
Place
of theThrowerAnt
. - For each place, return a random bee if there is any, and if not, inspect the place in front of it (stored as the current place’s
entrance
). - If there is no bee to attack, return
None
.
Hint: The
random_bee
function provided inants.py
returns a random bee from a list of bees orNone
if the list is empty.
Hint: As a reminder, if there are no bees present at a
Place
, then thebees
attribute of thatPlace
instance will be an empty list.
Hint: Having trouble visualizing the test cases? Try drawing them out on paper! The sample diagram provided in Game Layout shows the first test case for this problem.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 03 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 03✂️
After implementing nearest_bee
, a ThrowerAnt
should be able to throw_at
a Bee
in front of it that is not still in the Hive
. Make sure that your ants do the right thing! To start a game with ten food (for easy testing):
python3 gui.py --food 10
Make sure to submit by the checkpoint deadline using the following command:
python3 ok --submit
You can check to ensure that you have completed Phase 1’s problems by running:
python3 ok --score
Congratulations! You have finished Phase 1 of this project!
Phase 2: Ants!
Important submission note: For full credit,
- Submit with Phase 2 complete by Tuesday, March 8 (worth 1 pt).
Now that you’ve implemented basic gameplay with two types of Ant
s, let’s add some flavor to the ways ants can attack bees. In this phase, you’ll be implementing several different Ant
s with different attack strategies.
After you implement each Ant
subclass in this section, you’ll need to set its implemented
class attribute to True
so that that type of ant will show up in the GUI. Feel free to try out the game with each new ant to test the functionality!
With your Phase 2 ants, try python3 gui.py -d easy
to play against a full swarm of bees in a multi-tunnel layout and try -d normal
, -d hard
, or -d extra-hard
if you want a real challenge! If the bees are too numerous to vanquish, you might need to create some new ants.
Problem 4 (2 pt)
A ThrowerAnt
is a powerful threat to the bees, but it has a high food cost. In this problem, you’ll implement two subclasses of ThrowerAnt
that are less costly but have constraints on the distance they can throw:
- The
LongThrower
can onlythrow_at
aBee
that is found after following at least 5entrance
transitions. It cannot hitBee
s that are in the samePlace
as it or the first 4Place
s in front of it. If there are twoBees
, one too close to theLongThrower
and the other within its range, theLongThrower
should only throw at the fartherBee
, which is within its range, instead of trying to hit the closerBee
. - The
ShortThrower
can onlythrow_at
aBee
that is found after following at most 3entrance
transitions. It cannot throw at any bees further than 3Place
s in front of it.
Neither of these specialized throwers can throw_at
a Bee
that is exactly 4 Place
s away.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
ShortThrower | 2 | 1 |
LongThrower | 2 | 1 |
To implement these new throwing ants, your ShortThrower
and LongThrower
classes should inherit the nearest_bee
method from the base ThrowerAnt
class. The logic of choosing which bee a thrower ant will attack is the same, except the ShortThrower
and LongThrower
ants have a maximum and minimum range, respectively.
To do this, modify the nearest_bee
method to reference min_range
and max_range
attributes, and only return a bee if it is within range.
Make sure to give these min_range
and max_range
attributes appropriate values in the ThrowerAnt
class so that the behavior of ThrowerAnt
is unchanged. Then, implement the subclasses LongThrower
and ShortThrower
with appropriately constrained ranges.
You should not need to repeat any code between ThrowerAnt
, ShortThrower
, and LongThrower
.
Hint:
float('inf')
returns an infinite positive value represented as a float that can be compared with other numbers.
Hint: You can chain inequalities in Python: e.g.
2 < x < 6
will check ifx
is between 2 and 6. Also,min_range
andmax_range
should mark an inclusive range.
Important: Make sure your class attributes are called
max_range
andmin_range
The tests directly reference these attribute names, and will error if you use another name for these attributes.
Don’t forget to set the implemented
class attribute of LongThrower
and ShortThrower
to True
.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 04 -u✂️
After writing code, test your implementation (rerun the tests for 03 to make sure they still work):
python3 ok -q 03✂️
python3 ok -q 04✂️
👩🏽💻👨🏿💻 Pair programming? Remember to alternate between driver and navigator roles. The driver controls the keyboard; the navigator watches, asks questions, and suggests ideas.
Problem 5 (3 pt)
Implement the FireAnt
, which does damage when it receives damage. Specifically, if it is damaged by amount
health units, it does a damage of amount
to all bees in its place (this is called reflected damage). If it dies, it does an additional amount of damage, as specified by its damage
attribute, which has a default value of 3
as defined in the FireAnt
class.
To implement this, override Ant
’s reduce_health
method. Your overriden method should call the reduce_health
method inherited from the superclass (Ant
) to reduce the current FireAnt
instance’s health. Calling the inherited reduce_health
method on a FireAnt
instance reduces the insect’s health
by the given amount
and removes the insect from its place if its health
reaches zero or lower.
Hint: Do not call
self.reduce_health
, or you’ll end up stuck in a recursive loop. (Can you see why?)
However, your method needs to also include the reflective damage logic:
- Determine the reflective damage amount: start with the
amount
inflicted on the ant, and then adddamage
if the ant’s health has dropped to 0. - For each bee in the place, damage them with the total amount by calling the appropriate
reduce_health
method for each bee.
Important: Remember that when any
Ant
loses all its health, it is removed from itsplace
, so pay careful attention to the order of your logic inreduce_health
.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
FireAnt | 5 | 3 |
Hint: Damaging a bee may cause it to be removed from its place. If you iterate over a list, but change the contents of that list at the same time, you may not visit all the elements. This can be prevented by making a > copy of the list. You can either use a list slice, or use the built-in
list
function.>>> lst = [1,2,3,4] >>> lst[:] [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> list(lst) [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> lst[:] is not lst and list(lst) is not lst True
Once you’ve finished implementing the FireAnt
, give it a class attribute implemented
with the value True
.
Note: Even though you are overriding the superclass’s
reduce_health
function (Ant.reduce_health
), you can still use this method in your implementation by calling it. Note this is not recursion. (Why not?)
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 05 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 05✂️
You can also test your program by playing a game or two! A FireAnt
should destroy all co-located Bees when it is stung. To start a game with ten food (for easy testing):
python3 gui.py --food 10
Problem 6 (1 pt)
We are going to add some protection to our glorious home base by implementing the WallAnt
, an ant that does nothing each turn. A WallAnt
is useful because it has a large health
value.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
WallAnt | 4 | 4 |
Unlike with previous ants, we have not provided you with a class header. Implement the WallAnt
class from scratch. Give it a class attribute name
with the value 'Wall'
(so that the graphics work) and a class attribute implemented
with the value True
(so that you can use it in a game).
Hint: To start, take a look at how the previous problems’ ants were implemented!
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 06 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 06✂️
Problem 7 (3 pt)
Implement the HungryAnt
, which will select a random Bee
from its place
and deal damage to the bee by eating it whole. After eating a Bee
, a HungryAnt
must spend 3 turns chewing before being able to eat again. While the HungryAnt
is chewing, it is not able to eat (deal damage to) any Bee
’s. After 3 turns, if there is no bee available to eat, the HungryAnt
will do nothing.
We have not provided you with a class header. Implement the HungryAnt
class from scratch. Give it a class attribute name
with the value 'Hungry'
(so that the graphics work) and a class attribute implemented
with the value True
(so that you can use it in a game).
Hint: When a
Bee
is eaten, it should lose all its health. Is there an existing function we can call on aBee
that can reduce its health to 0?
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
HungryAnt | 4 | 1 |
Give HungryAnt
a time_to_chew
class attribute that stores the number of turns that it will take a HungryAnt
to chew (set to 3). Also, give each HungryAnt
an instance attribute chew_timer
that counts the number of turns it has left to chew (initialized to 0, since it hasn’t eaten anything at the beginning. You can also think of chew_timer
as the number of turns until a HungryAnt
can eat another Bee
).
Implement the action
method of the HungryAnt
: First, check if it is chewing; if so, decrement its chew_timer
. Otherwise, eat a random Bee
in its place
by reducing the Bee
’s health to 0. Make sure to set the chew_timer
when a Bee is eaten!
Hint: Other than the
action
method, make sure you implement the__init__
method too so theHungryAnt
starts off with the appropriate amount ofhealth
!
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 07 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 07✂️
We now have some great offensive troops to help vanquish the bees, but let’s make sure we’re also keeping our defensive efforts up. In this phase you will implement ants that have special defensive capabilities such as increased health and the ability to protect other ants.
👩🏽💻👨🏿💻 Pair programming? This would be a good time to switch roles. Switching roles makes sure that you both benefit from the learning experience of being in each role.
Problem 8 (3 pt)
Right now, our ants are quite frail. We’d like to provide a way to help them last longer against the onslaught of the bees. Enter the BodyguardAnt
.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
BodyguardAnt | 4 | 2 |
A BodyguardAnt
differs from a normal ant because it is a ContainerAnt
; it can contain another ant and protect it, all in one Place
. When a Bee
stings the ant in a Place
where one ant contains another, only the container is damaged. The ant inside the container can still perform its original action. If the container perishes, the contained ant still remains in the place (and can then be damaged).
Each ContainerAnt
has an instance attribute ant_contained
that stores the ant it contains. This ant, ant_contained
, initially starts off as None
to indicate that there is no ant being stored yet. Implement the store_ant
method so that it sets the ContainerAnt
’s ant_contained
instance attribute to the passed in ant
argument. Also implement the ContainerAnt
’s action
method to perform its ant_contained
’s action if it is currently containing an ant.
In addition, you will need to make the following modifications throughout your program so that a container and its contained ant can both occupy a place at the same time (a maximum of two ants per place), but only if exactly one is a container:
- There is an
Ant.can_contain
method, but it always returnsFalse
. Override the methodContainerAnt.can_contain
so that it takes an antother
as an argument and returnsTrue
if:- This
ContainerAnt
does not already contain another ant. - The other ant is not a container.
- This
- Modify
Ant.add_to
to allow a container and a non-container ant to occupy the same place according to the following rules:- If the ant originally occupying a place can contain the ant being added, then both ants occupy the place and original ant contains the ant being added.
- If the ant being added can contain the ant originally in the space, then both ants occupy the place and the (container) ant being added contains the original ant.
- If neither
Ant
can contain the other, raise the sameAssertionError
as before (the one already present in the starter code). - Important: If there are two ants in a specific
Place
, theant
attribute of thePlace
instance should refer to the container ant, and the container ant should contain the non-container ant.
- Add a
BodyguardAnt.__init__
that sets the initial amount of health for the ant.
Hint: You may find the
is_container
attribute that eachAnt
has useful for checking if a specificAnt
is a container. You should also take advantage of thecan_contain
method you wrote and avoid repeating code.
The constructor of
ContainerAnt.__init__
is implemented as follows:def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.ant_contained = None
As we saw in Hog,
args
is bound to all positional arguments (which are all arguments passed without keywords), andkwargs
is bound to all the keyword arguments. This ensures that both sets of arguments are passed to the Ant constructor.Effectively, this means the constructor is exactly the same as its parent class’s constructor (
Ant.__init__
) but here we also setself.ant_contained = None
.
Once you’ve finished implementing the BodyguardAnt
, give it a class attribute implemented
with the value True
.
Note: If you’re getting an “unreachable code” warning for
Ant.add_to
via the VSCode Pylance extension, it’s fine to ignore this specific warning, as the code is actually run (the warning in this case is inaccurate).
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 08 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 08✂️
Problem 9 (1 pt)
The BodyguardAnt
provides great defense, but they say the best defense is a good offense. The TankAnt
is a container that protects an ant in its place and also deals 1 damage to all bees in its place each turn.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
TankAnt | 6 | 2 |
We have not provided you with a class header. Implement the TankAnt
class from scratch. Give it a class attribute name
with the value 'Tank'
(so that the graphics work) and a class attribute implemented
with the value True
(so that you can use it in a game).
You should not need to modify any code outside of the TankAnt
class. If you find yourself needing to make changes elsewhere, look for a way to write your code for the previous question such that it applies not just to BodyguardAnt
and TankAnt
objects, but to container ants in general.
Hint: The only methods you need to override from
TankAnt
’s parent class are__init__
andaction
.
Hint: Like with
FireAnt
, it is possible that damaging a bee will cause it to be removed from its place.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 09 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 09✂️
Phase 3: Water and Might
Important submission note: For full credit,
- Submit with all phases complete by Thursday, March 10.
You will get an extra credit point for submitting the entire project by Wednesday, March 9.
In the final phase, you’re going to add one last kick to the game by introducing a new type of place and new ants that are able to occupy this place. One of these ants is the most important ant of them all: the queen of the colony!
Problem 10 (1 pt)
Let’s add water to the colony! Currently there are only two types of places, the Hive
and a basic Place
. To make things more interesting, we’re going to create a new type of Place
called Water
.
Only an insect that is waterproof can be placed in Water
. In order to determine whether an Insect
is waterproof, add a new class attribute to the Insect
class named is_waterproof
that is set to False
. Since bees can fly, set their is_waterproof
attribute to True
, overriding the inherited value.
Now, implement the add_insect
method for Water
. First, add the insect to the place regardless of whether it is waterproof. Then, if the insect is not waterproof, reduce the insect’s health to 0. Do not repeat code from elsewhere in the program. Instead, use methods that have already been defined.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 10 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 10✂️
Once you’ve finished this problem, play a game that includes water. To access the wet_layout
, which includes water, add the --water
option (or -w
for short) when you start the game.
python3 gui.py --water
👩🏽💻👨🏿💻 Pair programming? Remember to alternate between driver and navigator roles. The driver controls the keyboard; the navigator watches, asks questions, and suggests ideas.
Problem 11 (1 pt)
Currently there are no ants that can be placed on Water
. Implement the ScubaThrower
, which is a subclass of ThrowerAnt
that is more costly and waterproof, but otherwise identical to its base class. A ScubaThrower
should not lose its health when placed in Water
.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
ScubaThrower | 6 | 1 |
We have not provided you with a class header. Implement the ScubaThrower
class from scratch. Give it a class attribute name
with the value 'Scuba'
(so that the graphics work) and remember to set the class attribute implemented
with the value True
(so that you can use it in a game).
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 11 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 11✂️
Problem 12 (3 pt)
Finally, implement the QueenAnt
. The queen is a waterproof ScubaThrower
that inspires her fellow ants through her bravery. In addition to the standard ScubaThrower
action, the QueenAnt
doubles the damage of all the ants behind her each time she performs an action. Once an ant’s damage has been doubled, it is not doubled again for subsequent turns.
Note: The reflected damage of a
FireAnt
should not be doubled, only the extra damage it deals when its health is reduced to 0.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
QueenAnt | 7 | 1 |
However, with great power comes great responsibility. The QueenAnt
is governed by three special rules:
- If the queen ever has its health reduced to 0, the ants lose. You will need to override
Ant.reduce_health
inQueenAnt
and callants_lose()
in that case in order to signal to the simulator that the game is over. (The ants also still lose if any bee reaches the end of a tunnel.) - There can be only one queen. A second queen cannot be constructed. To check if an Ant can be constructed, we use the
Ant.construct()
class method to either construct an Ant if possible, or returnNone
if not. You will need to overrideAnt.construct
as a class method ofQueenAnt
in order to add this check. To keep track of whether a queen has already been created, you can use an instance variable added to the currentGameState
. - The queen cannot be removed. Attempts to remove the queen should have no effect (but should not cause an error). You will need to override
Ant.remove_from
inQueenAnt
to enforce this condition.
Hint: Think about how you can call the
construct
method of the superclass ofQueenAnt
. Remember that you ultimately want to construct aQueenAnt
, not a regularAnt
or aScubaThrower
.
Hint: You can find each
Place
in a tunnel behind theQueenAnt
by starting at the ant’splace.exit
and then repeatedly following itsexit
. Theexit
of aPlace
at the end of a tunnel isNone
.
Hint: To avoid doubling an ant’s damage twice, mark the ants that have been double damaged in a way that persists across calls to
QueenAnt.action
.
Hint: When doubling the ants’ damage, keep in mind that there can be more than one ant in a
Place
, such as if one ant is guarding another.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q 12 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q 12✂️
Extra Credit (2 pt)
During Office Hours and Project Parties, the staff will prioritize helping students with required questions. We will not be offering help with this question unless the queue is empty.
Implement two final thrower ants that do zero damage, but instead apply a temporary “status” on the action
method of a Bee
instance that they throw_at
. This “status” lasts for a certain number of turns, after which it ceases to take effect.
We will be implementing two new ants that inherit from ThrowerAnt
.
SlowThrower
throws sticky syrup at a bee, slowing it for 3 turns. When a bee is slowed, it can only move on turns whengamestate.time
is even, and can do nothing otherwise. If a bee is hit by syrup while it is already slowed, it is slowed for an additional 3 turns.ScaryThrower
intimidates a nearby bee, causing it to back away instead of advancing. (If the bee is already right next to the Hive and cannot go back further, it should not move. To check if a bee is next to the Hive, you might find theis_hive
instance attribute ofPlace
s useful). Bees remain scared until they have tried to back away twice. Bees cannot try to back away if they are slowed andgamestate.time
is odd. Once a bee has been scared once, it can’t be scared ever again.
Important update (3/7): Previously, the spec mentioned that “Bees will not back up when scared if they are slowed.” However, the actual behavior of this should be, “Bees will not back up when scared if they are slowed *and
gamestate.time
is odd.*” as described and seen in the behavior of the doctests (which have not changed). The spec description has now been updated to reflect this behavior.A clarification on the doctest comments:
# after this, no longer scared, but still slowed for 8 turns
and# it's an even turn, so it can be scared and move backwards
are referring to that sincegamestate.time
is even, the bee can now make its second attempt to back away due to being scared (which occurred atgamestate.time=0
). The bee is not being scared a second time, it’s just showing the effects of being scared fromgamestate.time=0
. After the bee has made this second attempt to back away according to the doctest comments, it can no longer be inflicted by the scared status another time.Note: This change only affects the spec on this page, and not* the tests for the question itself.* Since the tests are still correct, there is nothing to redownload for this change.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
SlowThrower | 4 | 1 |
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In order to complete the implementations of these two ants, you will need to set their class attributes appropriately and implement the slow
and scare
methods on Bee
, which apply their respective statuses on a particular bee. You may also have to edit some other methods of Bee
.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q EC -u✂️
You can run some provided tests, but they are not exhaustive:
python3 ok -q EC✂️
Make sure to test your code! Your code should be able to apply multiple statuses on a target; each new status applies to the current (possibly previously affected) action method of the bee.
Optional Problems
Optional Problem 1
During Office Hours and Project Parties, the staff will prioritize helping students with required questions. We will not be offering help with this question unless the queue is empty.
Implement the NinjaAnt
, which damages all Bee
s that pass by, but can never be stung.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
NinjaAnt | 5 | 1 |
A NinjaAnt
does not block the path of a Bee
that flies by. To implement this behavior, first modify the Ant
class to include a new class attribute blocks_path
that is set to True
, then override the value of blocks_path
to False
in the NinjaAnt
class.
Second, modify the Bee
’s method blocked
to return False
if either there is no Ant
in the Bee
’s place
or if there is an Ant
, but its blocks_path
attribute is False
. Now Bee
s will just fly past NinjaAnt
s.
Finally, we want to make the NinjaAnt
damage all Bee
s that fly past. Implement the action
method in NinjaAnt
to reduce the health of all Bee
s in the same place
as the NinjaAnt
by its damage
attribute. Similar to the FireAnt
, you must iterate over a potentially changing list of bees.
Hint: Having trouble visualizing the test cases? Try drawing them out on paper! See the example in Game Layout for help.
Before writing any code, unlock the tests to verify your understanding of the question:
python3 ok -q optional1 -u✂️
Once you are done unlocking, begin implementing your solution. You can check your correctness with:
python3 ok -q optional1✂️
For a challenge, try to win a game using only HarvesterAnt
and NinjaAnt
.
Optional Problem 2
During Office Hours and Project Parties, the staff will prioritize helping students with required questions. We will not be offering help with this question unless the queue is empty.
We’ve been developing this ant for a long time in secret. It’s so dangerous that we had to lock it in the super hidden CS61A underground vault, but we finally think it is ready to go out on the field. In this problem, you’ll be implementing the final ant – LaserAnt
, a ThrowerAnt
with a twist.
Class | Food Cost | Initial Health |
---|---|---|
LaserAnt | 10 | 1 |
The LaserAnt
shoots out a powerful laser, damaging all that dare to stand in its path. Both Bee
s and Ant
s, of all types, are at risk of being damaged by LaserAnt
. When a LaserAnt
takes its action, it will damage all Insect
s in its place (excluding itself, but including its container if it has one) and the Place
s in front of it, excluding the Hive
.
If that were it, LaserAnt
would be too powerful for us to contain. The LaserAnt
has a base damage of 2
. But, LaserAnt
’s laser comes with some quirks. The laser is weakened by 0.25
each place it travels away from LaserAnt
’s place. Additionally, LaserAnt
has limited battery. Each time LaserAnt
actually damages an Insect
its laser’s total damage goes down by 0.0625
(1/16). If LaserAnt
’s damage becomes negative due to these restrictions, it simply does 0 damage instead.
The exact order in which things are damaged within a turn is unspecified.
In order to complete the implementation of this ultimate ant, read through the LaserAnt
class, set the class attributes appropriately, and implement the following two functions:
insects_in_front
is an instance method, called by theaction
method, that returns a dictionary where each key is anInsect
and each corresponding value is the distance (in places) that thatInsect
is away fromLaserAnt
. The dictionary should include allInsects
on the same place or in front of theLaserAnt
, excludingLaserAnt
itself.calculate_damage
is an instance method that takes indistance
, the distance that an insect is away from theLaserAnt
instance. It returns the damage that theLaserAnt
instance should afflict based on:- The
distance
away from theLaserAnt
instance that anInsect
is. - The number of
Insects
that thisLaserAnt
has damaged, stored in theinsects_shot
instance attribute.
In addition to implementing the methods above, you may need to modify, add, or use class or instance attributes in the LaserAnt
class as needed.
Note: There are no unlocking tests for this question.
You can run the provided test, but it is not exhaustive:
python3 ok -q optional2✂️
Make sure to test your code!
Project submission
At this point, run the entire autograder to see if there are any tests that don’t pass:
python3 ok
You can also check your score on each part of the project, including the extra credit problem:
python3 ok --score
Once you are satisfied, submit to complete the project.
python3 ok --submit
If you have a partner, make sure to add them to the project submission on okpy.
You are now done with the project! If you haven’t yet, you should try playing the game!
python3 gui.py [-h] [-d DIFFICULTY] [-w] [--food FOOD]
Acknowledgments: Tom Magrino and Eric Tzeng developed this project with John DeNero. Jessica Wan contributed the original artwork. Joy Jeng and Mark Miyashita invented the queen ant. Many others have contributed to the project as well!
The new concept artwork was drawn by Alana Tran, Andrew Huang, Emilee Chen, Jessie Salas, Jingyi Li, Katherine Xu, Meena Vempaty, Michelle Chang, and Ryan Davis.