Arena Fighter: a programming ladder game built for humans and AI coding agents
tristanbob · x · 2026-10-14
- Arena Fighter is a deterministic, tick-based 1v1 programming game for humans and AI agents: write a bot in any language, read the battlefield as JSON, pick a move and attack each tick, and climb a rated ladder.
- Ships with TypeScript/Python starters, an offline JS simulator, Gymnasium/PettingZoo environments, and an /llms.txt entry with Markdown guides, JSON schemas, and starter code for agents.
- The poster demoed GitHub Copilot building a bot and auto-queueing ranked matches: first loss after 115 ticks, provisional rating 1863, ladder score 1207.
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