Hacking con maze challenge: bots race through thousands of 64x64 mazes
tristanbob · x · 2026-09-27
SAINTCON's pre-conference challenge had participants build bots to quickly navigate thousands of 64x64 mazes on a game server. The author competed with Muse, which performed well despite periodic uncontrolled reboots; the winner built a full 3D visualization of the game environment to optimize their runners.
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