Hello! I wrote an engine and viewer for the Planet Wars 2010 google AI challenge, with focus in speed, looks, and user ergonomics.
I am still working on it, and have plans to add a more game-like mode that would allow human players to play againt handicapped bots. I also plan on adding more features then the original competition.
It already runs about twice as fast as the original Java version (with a much smaller memory footprint), but I plan on making it faster yet. It also supports running tournaments within the program which increases speed immensly, managing around 200 matches per second on my PC.
It's bean tons of fun making this so far!
The source as well as windows/linux binaries are hosted on github: https://github.com/yuval-herman/Planet-Wars-Runner