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Written by bkardell on 2025-01-16 at 18:10

I wish video games had like, open APIs where you could build your own non-human players. I would totally like to build bots that compete (against other bots, or me) in some of them. Heck, I'd love to see competitions of bots.

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Written by bkardell on 2025-01-16 at 18:13

Like, this isnt' even the only thing like it, but it's got millions of subscribers and draws actual crowds and so on https://www.youtube.com/@BattleBots

I'd love to do that, but in videogames, basically. Especially sports games.

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Written by Luca on 2025-01-16 at 18:16

@bkardell There are some games that rely on an API like spacetraders.io or Screeps.

But yeah, more APIs in games would be cool

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Written by Blaine Bublitz on 2025-01-16 at 18:19

@bkardell This is exactly why I worked on Dark Forest for 2 years. I love building on top of game APIs

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Written by Bryan on 2025-01-16 at 19:40

@bkardell I always think this is the perfect use case for webassembly. The sandbox means the bot player can’t do anything nefarious. And the (as yet unrealized) ability to write the bits in any language you want.

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