The TTC 2014 Live Contest Case

Tassilo Horn

horn@uni-koblenz.de

July 22th, 2014

The Transformation Tool Contest

  • Aim: Evaluate and compare expressiveness, usability, and performance of transformation tools by solving selected case studies
    • Two challenging offline case studies
    • One Live Contest case
  • The TTC workshop is on Friday
    • Morning: the offline cases
    • Afternoon: the Live Contest case and award ceremony

The TTC Live Contest Case

We're gonna fight out the Transformation Tool Soccer Worldcup!

The Transformation Tool Soccer Worldcup

  • Task: Use your favorite transformation tool to implement a soccer-playing transformation
  • Evaluation:
    1. Let tools play soccer against each other
    2. Let the TTC audience assess the quality of the solution

The Transformation Tool Soccer Worldcup

  • The game is network-based and a Soccer Server is provided
    • Two soccer clients connect to the server
    • The first one controls the blue team
    • The second one controls the red team
  • The game is turn-based
    1. The team with the ball makes its actions
    2. The other team makes its moves

Overview of the Soccer Game

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The SoccerPitch Metamodel

soccerpitch-mm.png

An Example SoccerPitch

soccerpitch-diag.png

The Update Metamodel

update-mm.png

The Soccer Gameplay Rules

  • A MovePlayer action moves a player
    • Player with ball cannot move as far as a player without ball
    • Moving into the opponent player with ball attacks him (50% chance of capturing the ball)
    • …
  • A ShootBall action makes the player shoot the ball
    • Shooting towards an own player performs a pass (but ball might get intercepted)
    • Shooting towards a GoalField might score a goal unless the goal keeper catches the ball
    • …

Awards

  1. The TTC Soccer World Champion (match winner)
  2. The Expert Judges' Choice award (scored by the audience)
  3. The Overall Live Contest Winner (balanced between 1. and 2.; also scored by the audience)

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