auto-traffic-control

In 2022 [0], Jan David Nose (jdno) released a game / programming challenge called _Auto Traffic Control_ [1]. Rather than controlling airplanes with UI interactions, the simulation is a GRPC server that expects the player to construct a game client that issues flight paths. I tried to make a game client for jdno's ATC [2]. My client was deficient, as I tried to treat the movement as a fixed interval, by only submitting flight plans that moved in cartesian directions. Only by cheating, modifying the simulator, could my greedy algorithm land any planes [3]. I suspect I was supposed to continuously model and poll the future positions of airplanes when developing a flight plan. I suspect that I won't have much competition on the leaderboard, despite the asterisk, as jdno eventually archived the project [4]. Originally, the project was self-pu

heh, I'm surprised it didn't include the automatic HN front-page keyword "... in Rust" https://github.com/jdno/auto-traffic-control/blob/main/Cargo... but, seriously, I wondered if one needed to deal with waypoints, but it seems that no, they are liberally available: https://auto-traffic-control.com/docs/coordinates#routing-gr... I like Zachtronics games as much as the next crazy person, but the thought of having to implement this for a game gives me anxiety