Laby Bot

A pure Python, text-interface clone and solver of the Laby game

What's it for?

This package has a couple of purposes:

• To demonstrate how modeling the environment makes it easy to implement planning and reasoning.
• To provide a useful toy problem for testing out other AI algorithms.

Installation

Laby Bot can be installed by the command:

pip install laby_bot

NOTE: The modules will still work, but some of the tests will fail without the original Laby levels. You'll need to create a symlink to them. You can find them here.

Quick Start

Playing the Game

The laby_bot.robot submodule is intended as a drop-in replacement for the robot module of the original Laby game. You can test your bot code out on a given level like this:

from laby_bot.robot import *

load_level('<path to laby level>.laby')
show()

# Paste your bot code here, minus the "from robot import *" line
# that would normally appear at the top. All the standard robot
# instructions available in the Laby game are provided. 

When you run the above code, the map will be printed out to the command line after each move is taken by your bot.

Running the Solver

The laby_bot.solver submodule contains a generic solver for any (solvable) Laby level. You can test it out on a randomly generated level like this:

from laby_bot.robot import generate_level, show
from laby_bot.solver import run

generate_level()
show()
run()

Or you can simply run it from the command line:

python3 -m laby_bot