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I remember playing Tron (light-cycles!) against GA bots. There was thesis on it in 2001: http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/papers/funes_phd.pdf

I felt there was one large flaw (which I explained at the time) since the experiment ran for a few years, computers kept improving. Problem was, the speed at which the game played accelerated along with cpu speeds. You needed quicker reflexes if your computer was faster. If there's anything to retain from this is, make sure the gameplay speed remains the same, whatever the hardware.

Very cool! Good luck!

You may want to look at Spore, if you haven't already.