Project Hoshimi

Project Hoshimi Programming Battle

Imagine that you are the only one that can save a person, a city, or even a nation and that you can use the right combination of strategy and programming skills to do this. The Project Hoshimi - Programming Battle invitational brings to life the world of Professor Hoshimi and his faithful crew of scientists and programming experts in a fantasy of life and death. This popular competition uses a background story, comic style graphics, and very real challenges to test the skills of programmers everywhere and allow them to compete, directly online, with people all over their nation and eventually the world to see who has the fastest program to save the day. In Project Hoshimi - Programming Battle, you write the code representing the behavior and the strategy of a team of characters going through different types of missions. The results are not only fun to create but also fun to watch as the programs play out in a virtual 3D environment for all to see.

History

Project Hoshimi Programming Battle is a part of the Imagine Cup competition since 2005.

Sources

[http://imaginecup.com/Competition/ProjectHoshimi.aspx Imagine Cup web site]

[http://project-hoshimi.com/ Project Hoshimi web site]

[http://www.project-hoshimi.ru/ Russian Competition]