Forward Model and State Observation

The following pages contain information about the functions that the controller can use to query the state of the game every game cycle. All these functions are from the class StateObservation. Its methods are grouped in the following tabs by the part of the game state that is being queried:

• Advancing and copying the state
• Querying the state of the game
• Information about the state of the Avatar
• Information about events happened in the game
• Information about other sprites in the game

Multi player agents receive an object of type StateObservationMulti instead, which sub-classes StateObservation (therefore all single player methods can still be accessed - be weary when using player specific methods, as not passing the playerID would result in the default ID of 0 being used instead). The additional and overloaded methods are grouped in the following tabs:

• Advancing and copying the state (2 Player)
• Querying the state of the game (2 Player)
• Information about the state of the Avatar (2 Player)