War Snake

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  Domination

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  5th in the veteran division, among some of the best battlesnakes in the world

Project Status

Inspiration

War Snake was inspired by the thrill of combat, and the thrill of running a web server ;-)

What it does

It uses the A* search algorithm to navigate around the board.

How I built it

War Snake is built in Python, and deployed as a Docker container to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Travis CI is used to automatically and continuously deploy War Snake to the AWS environment.

Challenges I ran into

Debugging was difficult until I admitted I wasn't getting anywhere and just used Postman.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm proud that this only took me about 4 hours.

What I learned

I learned a little bit about A* search in practice, and I learned some more about continuous deployment and AWS.

What's next for War Snake

It will likely be laid to rest (honorably) once the hackathon is over, since I am a student and I can only bum free servers off of AWS for so long.

Built With

• a*
• amazon-web-services
• cherrypy
• python
• travis-ci