Helpful notes for MPC

Viff: scratch examples using viff.

• places to look in the code
• Viff overview

Number Shoot Out Game

Super quickstart using tmux and docker-compose

docker-compose build
./launch_shootout_with_docker.sh

See the Battleship Game section for alternative ways to play the game.

Battleship Game

Viff Scratch Messing Around

• modifying the millionaires problem to see what is going on.
• copy battleship.py into your viff/apps/ directory.

$> ln -s ic3_mpc/battleship.py ic3_mpc/launch_ship.sh {your_viff_dir}/apps/battleship.py
$> ln -s ic3_mpc/launch_ship.sh {your_viff_dir}/apps/launch_ship.sh
$> cd viff/apps
$> ./launch_ships.sh

generate the config file

$> python generate-config-files.py -n 3 -t 1 localhost:9001 localhost:9002 localhost:9003

run scratch project

$> python battleship.py --no-ssl player-1.ini
$> python battleship.py --no-ssl player-2.ini
$> python battleship.py --no-ssl player-3.ini

running the main loop

Work in progress

$ pip install future

$ python main_loop.py
Welcome to the MPC Battleship game. Type help or ? to list commands.

(battleship)

(battleship) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
board  help

Undocumented commands:
======================
recv_attack  send_attack  show_board

(battleship)

$ python main_loop.py
(battleship) board
carrier (length 5) default: 0 0 0? 0 3 3
...