Hello Brendan. I've been working full time on an e-commerce site building monolith for the past year and I now have gray hair, not from age. I think I would benefit greatly from meeting you, for advice if anything.
I agree with jstx1. On your budget I would recommend finding other avenues for building MVPS depending on the nature of your projects. Is it a concept that you can test with a simple landing page to see if anyone is clicking on your call-to-action? Is it something you can pre-order and build within a few weeks with revenue from pre-orders? Does your product intend to do something that you can do manually at first? When I think that Airbnb's MVP was a page with a phone number and a catalog I don't see any justification for spending more than 100$ on any MVP.
After a few hours of installing all the libraries, it worked. I still don't understand much of what I'm doing, but I managed to run riversolver.sh and view the outputs :) Does it support scenarios with multiple opponents?