Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
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Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
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Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#2Just curious, what would be the best hosting option for beginners to use for their snake API server?
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#3Just curious, what would be the best hosting option for beginners to use for their snake API server?
Heroku is a really good option for beginners (and it's free!) We've got a few repos on GitHub that can be forked and deployed directly to Heroku:
https://github.com/battlesnakeio/community/blob/master/start...
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#4I just realized that a multiplayer Snake is basically the TRON racing game played on a discrete grid.
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#5I just realized that a multiplayer Snake is basically the TRON racing game played on a discrete grid.
Haha, yes! We actually had a "Tron Mode" at the tournament last year that just flooded the board with food to replicate light cycles.
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#6"
Step 1
Write a program to play the game Snake
Step 2
Deploy using whatever technology you like
Step 3
Battle other snakes and compete in arenas!
"
Sounds cool, that title make it sound like yet another worms.io clone, but this is programmatic gaming - I feel the title should include that, or "make a snake bot to battle in a classic 'snake' arena".
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#7Just curious, what would be the best hosting option for beginners to use for their snake API server?
Historically, they've recommended Heroku... however, their dynos have a cold-start problem, causing your snake to sometimes timeout. I would recommend using an AWS free-tier instance if you have the option.
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#8" Step 1 Write a program to play the game Snake Step 2 Deploy using whatever technology you like Step 3 Battle other snakes and compete in arenas! " Sounds cool, that title make it sound like yet another worms.io clone, but this is programmatic gaming - I feel the title should include that, or "make a snake bot to battle in a classic 'snake' arena".
That sounds just like armagetron.
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#9Does anyone have a list of competitive programming challenges like this? Specifically where you're programming a board game against other algorithms. Googling "competitive programming challenges" doesn't yield a lot of good results.
I'm aware of http://fruitbots.org/, which I had a lot of fun with.
Re: Battlesnake – Competitive Snake Games over HTTP
#10Looks very cool!
I have a question - with AI nowadays that can dominate pretty much any board game - is there any hope for anyone 'hand coding' a strategy here against someone who just trains an AI model.
How does the problem space change in a game such as this where it may be 1v8 opponents vs a 1v1 game such as chess I wonder