CodeQuest 2023

All university and high school students across Australia!

Knowing only the basics of programming (input/output, lists, etc.) is enough for you to have your program play the game. But of course the more you know the more advanced your player can be. Even if you can't fully articulate your ideas for a program, the team based nature of the competition allows you to tackle this together with your peers, meaning you can bounce ideas and work towards the bot you envisioned.

No, we will provide you with a base code that plays the game. You'll only need to implement your ideas and startegies.

We are happy to announce from this year there is no limit on what programming language you can use! Write your code in whatever language you are comfortable with.

You don't have to. But hear me out on this one, we are giving away free food and swags, we are going to run technical workshops for you, we are planning to have industry reps, we will run the games on large monitors and we are planning to have fun. So it's your call if you'd like to be there with us or attend via Zoom.

The competition will start on 29th of July at 10am - that's when we let everyone know what the game is and the documents are released. Teams will have 24 hours to write their bots and submit their code. On 30th, we will run all the games and announce the winners! We are going to run everything in Monash University, Clayton campus.

You don't have to be in a team but it's a lot more fun to have one and, also, we have designed the game in a way that different people could work on different parts of their program at the same time. So if you do have a team you'll definitely have a lot of advantage. We accept teams of 1 to 3.

I can't tell you, but I do wonder what all these tanks are doing around the website. Probably just to protect you and your teammates.