the boss

[kam-ama]

Pacathon Submission

What is your team name?

Team Name: the boss

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Who is on your team?

Name	BU Email	BU ID	GitHub Account
Kamsi Amaechina	kamama@bu.edu	U50224557	kam-ama
Valerie Dam-Nguyen	valdn28@bu.edu	U61335408
Katie Meier	katiem23@bu.edu	U88066589	katiemeier

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How does your Pacman work?

Provide a brief explanation of your model's behavior, what information it uses, and any fancy algorithms employed (e.g., reinforcement learning techniques, neural networks, heuristics, etc.):
We made adjustments to have Pacman know where the pellets and power pellets were and aim to collect them; and awarded them for collecting farther ones. We also implemented a code to induce penalty if Pacman does the same some movements.

Checklist:

I ensure that I:

• have included my model's weights (the .json file) in my commit
• have configured the tournament behavior to use those weights
• copied over any code needed to run my model (e.g., all inputs to the neural network)
• tested the tournament at least once before submission (just to make sure everything is working)
• have not intentionally modified the game state in any way