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Still need to take a closer look, but this looks very cool! I kind of wish I could see more without signing up. All the attract text is kind of empty of content. I'd especially like to see the API or even how long it takes to get started per competition.

Does anyone have a name for this genre of game? "Programming game" is pretty useless as a search term. I'd like to find a community for this, since I built two of them and have no idea where to find players or get feedback.

for reference, though these are probably far too niche games to really get lots of play: Bang!: https://github.com/KevinMcHugh/mustached-nemesis The Resistance: https://github.com/KevinMcHugh/secret-nemesis

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https://www.codingame.com have similar AI contests. In the current contest they introduced some interesting features that help getting started. Participants are divided into multiple leagues, so you don't have to face top solutions immediately. Lowest league have simplified rule set. You can advance to next one by having higher rating than certain organizer bots.

I've wondered about building an AI tournament for Avalon before, as my feel from playing and discussing it is that success in the game is strictly dominated by social strategy.

It would be interesting to test out different bot strategies - I'll take a look later. :)

That's exactly why i built this. The groups I've played resistance with all build up their own rituals or micro optimizations and I'm not sure whether they're effective or not. For instance, I know certain players who will always vote against the first proposed mission team, in order to force more selection and discussion. Do they win more as resistance? If so, does it hurt their spy win percentage?

I intended to let the bots chatter in certain rigid ways, such as making accusations, but life has kept me busy or working on other side-projects, so it's a little unfinished.

Thinking of a genre for this game is actually a good idea. I recall that the last time I saw something like this I think it was a google challenge where they had some kind of spaceship attack game where they pit user submitted AI's vs each other.

That would have been Planet Wars. Other 'Google' challenges open for public were Tron and Ants.

I think a good search term for these things is "ai challenges" or "ai competitions".

I really like these competitions for learning (new) languages.

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