Battlesnake Starter for Kotlin

This is a simple starter project containing the bare-bone Battlesnake API implementation. This starter is a great way to get started writing a Battlesnake in Kotlin! This starter makes use of Ktor, a Kotlin Web library designed for making APIs and websites, to name a few applications.

To start, it is recommended that you first read the Quick Start guide in the Battlesnake docs. Then, you can open up Battlesnake.kt, and change some values that are marked with comments. Lastly, you can write your movement logic in Logic.kt. Good luck with writing your first Battlesnake!

Customizing your snake

You can customize your snake in customizations.json. For example, if I wanted the iguana head and tail, and I would want a red snake, my customizations.json would look like this:

{
    "color": "#FF0000",
    "head": "iguana",
    "tail": "iguana"
}

These changes will not take effect immediately, you have to click the "Reload" button next to your Battlesnake, inside the Battlesnake list.

Changing logic

You can look inside the Logic.kt file, on how to get started adding logic to your snake!

Running your snake

For convenience, this project uses the gradle application plugin to run your snake, to get started for testing. Simply run ./gradlew run to run your snake. IntelliJ Idea will also automatically generate run configurations, so you can use that as well.

Eventually you might want to deploy to a server. You can use ./gradlew build to create a "fat jar", then run the artifact using java -jar build\libs\YourNameHere-1.0.jar Alternatively, you can use the convenient distributions inside of build/distributions.