Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
This isn't one of those Cultris II bots (Artificial Intelligence or short AI). No, it's a bot that I've written in AutoHotKey. I am pleased with its downstacking speed. It's on a par with those integrated bots. My bot can't prepare combos though.
For each iteration, the bot analyses first the color of some pixels in order to know which piece is coming next (and from time to time how the field looks). Then it computes the fields resulting from hard-dropping the current and the next piece on all possible locations and assigns a score to each field. Eventually, it makes the move that leads to the field with the best score. The assigned scores depend on the bumpiness of the surface, the distribution of white and black cells (like in chess) on the surface, and the accessibility of the 2 highest holes (how deep the holes are covered and how flat the surface is above).
The video consists of 2 parts: offline Survivor mode and a bot match on highest difficulty. Online Survivor record should be around 3 1/2 minutes, so take that slow humans! My bot sent 858 lines in the following match, can't remember having seen such a high number before (yeah, those bot matches can take an eternity).
This isn't one of those Cultris II bots (Artificial Intelligence or short AI). No, it's a bot that I've written in AutoHotKey. I am pleased with its downstacking speed. It's on a par with those integrated bots. My bot can't prepare combos though.
For each iteration, the bot analyses first the color of some pixels in order to know which piece is coming next (and from time to time how the field looks). Then it computes the fields resulting from hard-dropping the current and the next piece on all possible locations and assigns a score to each field. Eventually, it makes the move that leads to the field with the best score. The assigned scores depend on the bumpiness of the surface, the distribution of white and black cells (like in chess) on the surface, and the accessibility of the 2 highest holes (how deep the holes are covered and how flat the surface is above).
The video consists of 2 parts: offline Survivor mode and a bot match on highest difficulty. Online Survivor record should be around 3 1/2 minutes, so take that slow humans! My bot sent 858 lines in the following match, can't remember having seen such a high number before (yeah, those bot matches can take an eternity).
