(Posted about the contest an hour earlier, only got two votes. Oh well.)
If I am reading the problem correctly, there is no interactive component this year? You get one submission and don't get to test it against anything else.
It is not essential that the judges be able to run your code
It makes a little more sense if you don't think about the game as an assembly of parts, which isn't really explained anywhere. For example there is some strategy with trying to make the ghosts be as bad as possible, so they are in a nice neat line immediately after a power pill.
As usual, kudos to the team for making a puzzle with so many layers.
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(Posted about the contest an hour earlier, only got two votes. Oh well.)
If I am reading the problem correctly, there is no interactive component this year? You get one submission and don't get to test it against anything else.
So is this a beauty pageant?
That's the part they don't have to be able to run. They won't even try unless your entry is in the running, it seems.
The .ghc and .gcc (the actual submission) does have to run, since that's what's being scored.
It makes a little more sense if you don't think about the game as an assembly of parts, which isn't really explained anywhere. For example there is some strategy with trying to make the ghosts be as bad as possible, so they are in a nice neat line immediately after a power pill.
As usual, kudos to the team for making a puzzle with so many layers.