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awesome-battlesnake
A curated list of Battlesnake resources
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Tutorials
- Code a BattleSnake and compete with your friends - Eddie Jaoude - A video on getting started with Battlesnake, the TypeScript starter snake, and Codespaces
- Learning Python by Battling Bots - Full setup and strategies by ClarityCoders, featuring Python and Replit. Great for beginners!
- Learn to Battlesnake - Fork by Nettogrof - A fork of Learn to Battlesnake bringing it up to date with Battlesnake API v1
- Code a BattleSnake and compete with your friends - Eddie Jaoude - A video on getting started with Battlesnake, the TypeScript starter snake, and Codespaces
- How to Monitor your Battlesnake with New Relic - This Quick Start Guide and accompanying video tutorial will help you begin instrumenting and monitoring your Battlesnake with [New Relic](https://newrelic.com/) platform
- Learning Python by Battling Bots - Full setup and strategies by ClarityCoders, featuring Python and Replit. Great for beginners!
- Learning to build an Express API for Battlesnake - How to build a basic Battlesnake HTTP server using NodeJS and Express
- Minimax in Battlesnake - An excellent explaination by Coreyja of Minimax, MaxN, and related algorithms, with neat visualizations for both Tic Tac Toe and Battlesnake
- Preparing to Compete in a Battlesnake Tournament - Primer on programming a snake that can at least sort of stand on its own two, metaphorical, legs
- Text Your Battlesnake's Progress with Twilio - This project allows developers to see their snake's progress in a league at regular interval using Twilio - because it's super easy to get messages sent to your phone)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Turotial on building a simple hungry snake that can reach Gold medal in Global Arena
- Using Dijkstra's Algorithm for Battlesnake - By the end of this tutorial you will have a simple Battlesnake who will use Dijkstra's Algorithm to find the shortest path to food. Intended to be a second-step for a dev beginning to create their snake, after they have followed Battlesnake's initial tutorials
- Learn to Battlesnake - Original by Colin Walker - An interactive tutorial with live Battlesnake coding goodness!
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Miscellaneous
- Sorting Hat by Nicholas Carrigan - Sorting Hat for BattleSnake 2021 Summer League, where participants chose their favorite "caster houses" to support
- ChatSnek - Chat plays Battlesnake on Twitch
- Hosting Credit from Digital Ocean - $100 in credits from 2022 Competitive Season Partner Digital Ocean for hosting a Battlesnake Server
- Challenges - Tips & tricks - Tips & tricks for Battlesnake challenges
- Musical Battlesnake Ballad by Luke Mitchell (aka exzizt) - Canadian Artist Luke Mitchell composed this epic ballad for the 2019 Battlesnake Victoria, British Columbia competition
- SnakeLED - A Raspberry Pi Powered Battlesnake Viewer
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Battlesnakes
- aleksiy325/snek-two - "asdf123", winner of Battlesnake Victoria 2018 Intermediate Division
- altersaddle/untimely-neglected-wearable - A Python battlesnake featured as a strong opponent in the [Brad and Joe Coding Badly](https://github.com/BattlesnakeOfficial/coding-badly) live strea
- bugabinga/battle_snake - A hand-rolled Battlesnake-AI-Server written for the JVM
- ChaelCodes/CorneliusCodes - Cornelius, the Corn Snake who codes, is a Rusty Battlesnake Baby.
- ChaelCodes/HettieCodes - An albino hognose battlesnake built using Ruby. Their arch-nemesis CorneliusCodes always takes valedictorian.
- coreyja/battlesnake-rs - A collection of many of Coreyja's battlesnakes, written in Rust
- csauve/bookworm - A BattleSnake bot for 2020. Available to challenge in public snake search
- Flipez/battlesnake - Battlesnake 2018 Crystal Implementation
- graeme-hill/snakebot - Team Graeme & Chris, winner of Battlesnake Victoria 2018 Expert Division, see post-mortem in [Developer Stories](#developer-stories)
- hirethissnake/2017 - A Python AI for competition in the BattleSnake 2017 competition
- jackisherwood/battleSnakeElon - Snake that was entered in Battle Snake 2019
- JerryKott/Battlesnake2017 - Repository for the battlesnake.io competition code written in Cincom Smalltalk
- jhawthorn/snek - A battlesnake in Ruby, with C extensions
- joenash/blockly-snake - Blockly Battlesnake; That's right, a battlesnake made using Blockly's visual programming framework. Legendary idea!
- joshhartmann11/battlejake - Battlejake is an if-else snake
- joshhartmann11/battleJake2019 - Python, 2019
- kentmacdonald2/battle-snake-2017 - 2017 Battlesnake Advanced Division Entry - Aggressive A-Star based implementation
- L4r0x/snork - Fast battlesnake agents written in rust.
- McRaeAlex/RustySnake - A battleSnake written in rust
- miroesli/psscscs - Reinforcement Learning Battlesnake
- MorganConrad/Sisiutl - An aggressive Battlesnake written for NodeJS / Express
- MorganConrad/tantilla - Battlesnake written in node / micro
- moxuz/Battlesnake-AI-2017 - One Of Four Sendwithus Bounty Snakes
- nbw/battlesnake_crystal - A bounty battlesnake written in Crystal
- nbw/battlesnake - Ruby Battle Snake, 2017
- Nettogrof/Battlesnake-Nessegrev-Julia - Battlesnake written in julia
- Nettogrof/nessegrev-java-dev - Source code of Nessegrev snakes.
- noahspriggs/battlesnake-python - TR-8R SnEk, winner of Battlesnake Victoria 2016 Advanced Division
- OliverMKing/Battlesnake - My Battlesnake AI programmed in Python3
- pambrose/battlesnake-examples - Battlesnake Quickstart Snake Examples
- Petah/battle-snake-project-z - A Battlesnake AI written in Javascript for NodeJS.
- rdbrck/battlesnake-2017-btas - Better than Aleksiy's Snake, winner of Battlesnake Victoria 2017 Advanced Division
- rdbrck/bountysnake2017 - Redbrick's bounty snake in 2017, went 42-3, see post-mortems in [Developer Stories](#developer-stories)
- rdbrck/bountysnake2018 - Redbrick's bounty snake in 2018, went 71-3, see see post-mortems in [Developer Stories](#developer-stories) and [design talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlEgqnxEWdc)
- ronaldosvieira/cobrinha - Playing Battlesnake with reinforcement learning
- smallsco/robosnake - A port of Redbrick's Robosnake to the 2019 API with some minor enhancements
- Spenca/BattleSnake2017 - Vulture Snake, created for BattleSnake 2017
- Tch1b0/Esproso - A Battlesnake made in Go - The main goal of Esproso is to survive
- TheApX/battlesnake-hungry - A simple hungry battlesnake that is able to reach Gold medal in Global Arena with detailed documentation and turorial
- tim-hub/awesome-snake - This is battle snake bot in Flask, PostgreSql
- ToucheSir/reinforced-snake - Reinforcement Learning, "In which we try to crack a walnut with a jackhammer"
- tphummel/bobby-witt - A snake with unit tests that can run locally and runs on Cloudflare workers
- tyrelh/battlesnake-python - A BattleSnake AI Written in Python
- tyrelh/battlesnake2018 - BattleSnake AI server written in Python
- tyrelh/battlesnake2019 - Battlesnake 2019 AI written in NodeJS.
- woofers/battlesnake - Battlesnakes for 2018, 2019 and 2020
- Xe/since - .i le mi nundambysince (Editor's translation to English: "My battlesnake")
- xtagon/nagini - Battlesnake AI written in Elixir, 2019
- zacpez/scape-goat - Scape goat is a battle snake written in Go, and planned to be deployed on heroku when in battle.
- zakwht/battlesnake-2018 - Java BattleSnake
- ccSnake2018/ccsnake - cc snake on 2018 BattleSnake Competition
- tbgiles/FeistySnake-2019 - A competition AI for the BattleSnake 2019 programming competition
- m-schier/battlesnake-2019 - 2nd Intermediate Division @ Battlesnake 2019, Victoria by Team "Niedersächsische Kreuzotter"
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Game Rules and Logic
- BattlesnakeOfficial/rules - Battlesnake Game Rules and Logic
- hughrawlinson/battlesnake - Typescript/Javascript project generator, wrapper library, types, and dev tools
- TheApX/battlesnake-engine-cpp - Unofficial C++ implementation of BattleSnake rules and snake server
- TheMrSheldon/libsnake - The aim of libsnake is to provide an intuitive and fast library for simulating snake games. C++
- xtagon/battlesnake-rules-wasm - Experimental WebAssembly port of the Battlesnake rules
- xtagon/Snek - Battlesnake-compatible rulesets and board positions in Elixir
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Machine Learning and Data Science
- ArthurFirmino/Gym-Battlesnake - Multi-agent reinforcement learning environment
- Rainyforest/battlesnake_2020 - Simple environment for machine learning training, and A\* for food finding
- Battlesnake Post Mortem by Asymptotic Labs - Using a desktop GPU to top the global arena in under a week
- Exploring Data From Battlesnake Tournament Games - Article exploring various stats across all games run during the 2019 Battlesnake Victoria Tournament
- NNUE-Pytorch - "Efficiently Updatable Neural Network" explained in the context of chess
- Scaling your AI-powered Battlesnake with distributed reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker
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Third-Party Tools
- BattlesnakeArena by joshhartmann11 - A modified, terminal based, battle snake arena to bypass servers and have complete access to data
- BattlesnakeTester by jfgodoy - An app to create tests for your battlesnakes using imported games from the arena
- BattlesnakeTester by niecore - Smoke tests for Battlesnake behaviour
- Board Generator by lworkman, Nettogrof, EnderInvader - A react-typescript app for Battlesnake board visualization, now with Arcade Maze support!
- Game Download Extension for Chrome - Chrome extension to download battlesnake games
- Game Simulator by penelopezone - A Rust crate to represent game types in the game of battlesnake
- Logging Proxy by penelopezone - A proxy server that sits between your Battlesnake and the Battlesnake Servers to save all request data to a local DB. Was built on [this episode of Battlesnake's Deep Learning](https://youtu.be/NgdPQ70OHlk)
- Mojave by smallsco - A Battlesnake app for Windows/Mac/Linux supporting simultaneous play of snakes from 2017 and up, human players, built-in opponents, and more!
- Snek-Spec by mike-anderson - Generates boards from ASCII plain text mockups, designed to be used in typescript spec testing or as a standalone command line tool
- Game Download CLI - CLI tool to download battlesnake games in json format that can be sent directly to your battlesnake
- Game Download Extension for Firefox - Firefox extension to download battlesnake games
- Instant Observability Dashboard by New Relic - A tool you can use to monitor your Battlesnake server, including ensuring your server is compliant with the game's server requirements and that your Battlesnake is set up for success!
- Stats Tracker - Dashboard to follow your snake rating throughout time. Username/password: tester
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Developer Stories
- Backstory of the Caterpillar BattleSnakes family - Journey and future plans of the developer of Hungry Caterpillar, Smart Caterpillar and test/educational [The Very Hungry Caterpillar](https://github.com/TheApX/battlesnake-hungry)
- Battlesnake: The Rusty Tapeworm Chronicles - Background on [The Rusty Tapeworm](https://play.battlesnake.com/u/puttputt/the-rusty-tapeworm/)'s experience in the 2020 Battlesnake Saskatchewan Tournament
- Battling the Snake: A Tournament Retrospective - Journey, Lessons Learned, and Future Plans from a Developer following a Battlesnake Tournament Experience
- Building an AI for Battlesnake - A post-mortem from the winner of the Battlesnake Victoria 2018 Expert Division
- Building the Bounty Snake - A post-mortem from 2017 describing techniques and challenges in creating Redbrick Robosnake, including creating their own arena!
- Can’t stop the snake in Port Townsend, Washington USA - Port Townsend Leader showcases a local program teaching kids how to create their own Battlesnakes
- Entering the Battlesnake Arena - An introduction to Battlesnake using Rust for examples, by Thomas Weitzel
- Live-Streaming Battlesnake on a Budget - Awesome insights into the Twitch live-streaming setup for the 2019 Battlesnake Victoria Tournament
- Nettogrof BattleSnake Blog - Blog posts about Battlesnake
- Son of Robosnake: an Aggressive Bounty Snake - A post-mortem for the 2018 bounty snake called Son of Robosnake, from Redbrick
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Live Streamers
- ChaelCodes - ChaelCodes is a professional developer who likes "to live-code and play programming-adjacent games" - notably having streamed development on the snakes HettieCodes and CorneliusCodes, but has a variety of other projects.
- coreyja - Rust, Ruby, Battlesnake!
- defiines - Sometimes streams Battlesnake, Codewars, and more! Creator of the NES gamepad-controlled Battlesnake.
- geehlive - Developer advocate at Twilio and passionate about open source software.
- penelope_zone - Penelope (She/Her or They/Them pronouns) has been known to stream development of Rust battlesnakes, and has been very open about discussing interesting algorithms such as MCTS in the community
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Starter Projects
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Strategies and Algorithms
- Useful Algorithms
- A\* (A-star) - A graph traversal and path search algorithm
- Flood Fill - An algorithm that helps determine areas that are open/connected
- Minimax - A tree search algorithm popular among battlesnakes, often paired with [Alpha-beta pruning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E2%80%93beta_pruning)
- Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) - A tree search algorithm with many variants, sometimes using random rollouts and Upper Confidence Trees
- NNUE - A neural network-based evaluation function that runs efficiently on CPUs
- Voronoi - Useful for estimating board area control
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