snek

i have spent a lot of time thinking about the algorithms that go into multiplayer competitive snake thanks to the awesome people who run battlesnake.com. I once reached 4th on the leaderboards.

I decided the best final homage to everything i have learnt about upper confidence bounds applied to trees was to make a human interactive version of battlesnake, and get it to run the snake bot in people’s browsers using wasm. it works pretty well, and has brought me much joy playing with friends. i always thought it would be easy for a human to beat the algorithm, but i often lose. you should try it.