Snakeathon

Snakeathon is a framework for AI bots for a variant on the game Snake. Your goal is to write an algorithm to steer a SNAKE^* toward candy (and victory), while avoiding running into yourself and other snakes. We provide an engine to pit your SNAKEs against each other in epic battles, as well as useful routines to get you started writing SNAKE bot code.

* Standard Nifty Automaton for Kandy Eating (or perhaps for Killing Enemies)

Features

• Simple to get started - we provide many helper routines and a 2d vector class to help you get your algorithms up and running quickly
• Both grid and vector modes - snakes may be restricted to motion in cardinal directions, or may be free to move in any direction
• Single- and multiplayer modes - snakes must be able to avoid other snakes as well as themselves
• Live leaderboard - automatically update a website with player scores as games are played
• Save and playback game replays
• Delicious candy