Len Payne
lenpayne
Backstory
I am the CTO of a software company that builds tools for food banks and other hunger relief organizations. I was introduced to BattleSnake through a post on the Canada.ai Slack. Seeing a competition that pits people to code against each other, that helps benefit Food Banks Canada? That's awesome. I grabbed some of my team and we started building a Snake in our spare time out of PHP scraps and gumption. It went... okay. Stay Home and Code (SHAC) came and went, and we... well, we participated.
Since SHAC, I built a new snake framework in a different set of technologies (still PHP, just not the same bits of PHP.) It's smarter, and I've had a lot of fun with the Summer League challenges. But it's still not doing any ML/DL/RL of any kind. We're sticking to decision trees and A* algorithms along a graded map. It's put the snake in a higher tier, but not quite battling for supremacy with Pruzze yet.
Technologies
AWS Go PHP
Joined April 7, 2020
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Snake tweaked specifically to take on challenges.
Private PHP Friendly Huggable AWS Latency
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Snake built with Swoole and PHP. Uses a graded map and the A* algorithm for pathfinding.
Private Squads PHP Clueless AWS Latency
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Second deployment of my primary snake. Designed to be second-fiddle in squad games.
Private Squads PHP Classy AWS Latency
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We made this in PHP in our spare time in the two weeks leading up to Stay Home and Code. It is 100% decision-tree based, and learns nothing. Dumb as rocks, and a little old school. Built in Amphp for the HTTP layer, because we felt Symfony was overkill for an API.
Private PHP AWS Latency
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"Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people." -Frank Herbert
Private PHP Hungry AWS Latency
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Built in Go, designed to use the Official Rules to determine next movesets.
Private Go AWS MinMax Latency Open Source
Spring League 2021 Participant
6 months ago
Spring League Bronze
5 months ago
Spring League Silver
5 months ago
Spring League Gold
5 months ago
Spring League Platinum
4 months ago
Spring League Royale Bronze
5 months ago
Spring League Royale Silver
5 months ago
Spring League Royale Gold
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Spring League Royale Platinum
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Fall League Participant
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Next36 Participant
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Summer League 2021 Participant
2 months ago
Summer League Bronze
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Summer League Silver
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Summer League Gold
1 month ago
Summer League Platinum
3 weeks ago
Stay Home Participant
7 months, 2 weeks ago
First Snake!
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Into the Arena
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Going Pro!
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Winter Classic 2020 Participant
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Summer League 2020, Elite Top 10
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Summer League 2020 Participant
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Avoid Walls
1 month, 1 week ago
Avoid Yourself
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Find Food
1 month, 1 week ago
Avoid Other Snakes
1 month, 1 week ago
Survive 100
1 month, 1 week ago
Long Snake 10
1 month, 1 week ago
Long Snake 30
1 month, 1 week ago
Long Snake 40
1 month, 1 week ago
Battlesnake Heads
alligator
chomp
football
jackolantern
mask
missile
moto-helmet
orca
pixel-round
pumpkin
snail
sneaky
space-helmet
villain
viper
comet
iguana
lantern-fish
moustache
rocket-helmet
Battlesnake Tails
alligator
football
ghost
ion
leaf
missile
pixel-round
pumpkin
rattle
rocket
snail
swirl
swoop
tire
virus
comet
fish
flame
iguana
skinny-jeans
Arena Standings
Favorite Games Beta
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Mega Royale #3 - 26-Jun-2021
Royale mode, 8 Battlesnakes, 25x25 Board, 190 Turns -
Mega Royale #2 - 26-Jun-2021
Royale mode, 8 Battlesnakes, 25x25 Board, 250 Turns -
Mega Royale #1 - 26-Jun-2021
Royale mode, 8 Battlesnakes, 25x25 Board, 278 Turns
