Readit Newssydriax commented on Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition nautil.us/issue/54/the-un... · Posted by u/dnetesn
i am new to robocode but from skimming through it it seems you are just controlling one tank? this two sigma game involves controlling a swarm of bots with colonizing involved so its a different problem. in any case, just 'cause something exists shouldnt block you from trying your own twist on it.
Yeah, I agree that Robocode is very different from Halite.
There are some competitions that are somewhat similar. - Visually, generals.io is pretty similar to Halite-I, but in actuality ends up being a pretty different game. - Halite-I is most similar to the Ants AI Challenge of 2011 (which inspired it). - Halite-II was conceived of as sort of a mix of Halite-I and Planet Wars. - MIT Battlecode is similar in controlling lots of pieces, but the style of game is very different because Halite is all about emergent behaviors in the game whereas traditionally Battlecode hasn't been. They're also very different from the implementation side for the end-user. - Codingame can range from somewhat similar to very, very different.
sydriax commented on Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition nautil.us/issue/54/the-un... · Posted by u/dnetesn
If the goal of this was looking smart to attract smart talent, I feel it didn't work particularly well. At least, by reading the article, I didn't get that feeling.
Any game where the last survivor wins are based on the idea to get involved as little as possible early on (unless extremely high rewards are given along the way).
From the 2016 competition, there was at least one Two Sigma hire directly resulting from Halite and several more that were probably resulted indirectly.
Regarding your point about the last survivor winning, that's partially true, but partially not. What you're essentially describing is a proto-version of the non-aggression pact we saw develop in the last weeks of Halite 2016 (and which was indeed largely successful). However, even there, it wasn't quite so simple; competition winner mzotkiew had an excellent write-up of his strategy at https://github.com/mzotkiew/HaliteBot/blob/master/writeup.pd.... Halite-II makes non-aggression even more difficult due to the lack of discretization found in Halite I.
source: conceived of and co-developed Halite.
sydriax commented on Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition nautil.us/issue/54/the-un... · Posted by u/dnetesn
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