Visual block scripting drives an AI opponent in a classic arcade game
ezshine · x · 2026-11-12
Developer ezshine notes that in the AI era building software is easy — the hard part is design: subtraction and usability. The attached image shows a Scratch-like block-based visual scripting environment orchestrating key sequences and weighted branches to drive a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs arcade emulator in real time, with AI assignable as player 2 and a keypress-trace debugging panel.
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