https://www.nickbusey.com/tags/games/ Recent content in Games on NickBusey.com Hugo -- gohugo.io Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:54:13 -0600 https://www.nickbusey.com/code/2018-08-22-slither-bots/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:54:13 -0600 https://www.nickbusey.com/code/2018-08-22-slither-bots/ <p><a href="https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/SlitherBots" target="_blank">Slither Bots</a> is a series of scripts I created that automate playing the web-based game <a href="https://slither.io/" target="_blank">Slither.io</a> in increasingly complicated ways.</p> <p>Slither.io is a multiplayer version of the classic <code>Worm</code> game. You hit other snakes, you lose, they hit you, they lose. Once a worm dies, it drops a bunch of food that can be slurped up by the survivors (or anyone else) and can double or triple a player&rsquo;s size in a second or two.</p> <p>I started very simply, and added layers of complexity one after another, saving them each as a separate generation.</p> https://www.nickbusey.com/article/2018-08-12-papyrto/ Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.nickbusey.com/article/2018-08-12-papyrto/ 8 months or so ago I designed a paper adaptation of the board game, Quarto. I call it Papyrto. Papyrus (Paper) + Quarto = Papyrto. Invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller in 1991, Quarto is a simple game with interesting rules. There are 16 game pieces, each with 4 distinct attributes; tall or short, light or dark, round or square, and solid or hollow. So my design had to have a similar set of &lsquo;pieces&rsquo; with a different set of 4 distinct attributes.