Robot Rumble ALPHA

Robot gigachad

Open Source Python robot by entropicdrifter

My fourth bot.

Gigachad (originally named hannibal) was number 1 on the Alpha Board from November 2022 till December 2023 (to my recollection at least). It was designed to be a deep improvement on seven-of-nine. Where Seven cleaned up and refined the logic for we-are-borg, the idea of Gigachad was 2-fold: simulate the enemy's turn as well as possible and use recursion in order to resolve movement hierarchically with low-health retreats receiving the highest priority.

There are likely still a few bugs left in the implementation, at this point likely due to my sloppy architectural non-philosophy of just hacking on fixes to one problem at a time. My next bot will have a much more intentional design now that I have some experience at thinking through the problems of more advanced bots.

I'm open-sourcing gigachad now so that hopefully other bots will grow stronger off of training against it.

Battles

The Alpha Board

rating: 1635  last published: 03/25/24
04/18 07:10 UTC #12524 poggers 2035
04/18 06:55 UTC #12522 (+2) coward-bot 1247
04/17 18:40 UTC #12511 (+6) crystal 1438
04/17 17:55 UTC #12508 (+21) chaos-legion 1844
04/17 05:40 UTC #12496 (+4) glommer 1302
04/16 17:25 UTC #12484 (-11) basic 1686