Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
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Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#2This seems like a lot of fun. How does it work? Do you interact with the game via an API?
Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#3Congrats Brad & team!
I've had a ton of fun participating in prior tournaments, and I look forward to seeing where you guys take it moving forward!
Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#4This seems like a lot of fun. How does it work? Do you interact with the game via an API?
You create a server, that Battlesnakes call via API.
Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#5This looks really promising, I can see myself watching this like sports.
Congrats to the founders for such a creative ideas.
Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#6Every year the CS department at my old uni have a get together dinner for old and current students and teachers.
The main event is a programming competition called snakeu (or something similar can never get the spelling correct), which is exactly this but in Java and no web servers.
A few times the winner have been the team that took the basic snake which always turns right and improved it by always turning left (generally you get 15 or 30 mins to code it).
Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#7If you want to get a feel for what building a Battlesnake is like, would definitely recommend the Thursday Twitch shows!
This one was a lot of fun, where penelope_zone (of rubyfmt/Stripe/Ruby Central fame) built a Battlesnake in Bash: https://www.twitch.tv/battlesnakeofficial/v/1150727860?sr=a&...
Disclaimer: I host one of the recurring segments on the Battlesnake Twitch
Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#8This seems like a lot of fun. How does it work? Do you interact with the game via an API?
You build the API which implements a move handler, and every turn of the game the Battlesnake engine calls your move API with the full board state information and your API returns a move (up down left or right).
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#9Just as COVID started, my friends and I were planning a trip to Victoria, BC to participate in one of Battlesnake's live tournaments. Travel restrictions put a stop to things, but ever since then, Battlesnake has had an amazing online/virtual presence and we've been able to participate in multiple events through Twitch. I'm using it as practice to learn programming languages that I don't normally play with at my day job. Also learning a ton of game theory and data structures/algorithms along the way!
Re: Battlesnake raises $1.5M to turn coding into competition
#10Anyone play RoboWar back in the day?