shotcaller VS rust-mini-games

As for a project using these, see: https://github.com/amethyst/shotcaller and https://github.com/jojolepro/minigene :)

We do indeed intend to be on the lookout for such opportunities for standardization. Our main R&D project in this regard is Shotcaller, which is made with bracket-lib by people who have previously worked with Amethyst Engine.

https://github.com/amethyst/shotcaller

We’re happy to help any newcomers along on our Discord: https://discord.gg/qvJyTYM

I’m building a minimalistic, 1v1 MOBA game (Dota/LoL) that’s all about grand strategy at the macro level, like chess. It is designed from scratch to accommodate AI development.

OpenAI gave up after beating 99% of players in a limited version of DOTA2. They essentially just figured out how to out-micro human players. We want to let players play alongside AI assistance, like a racing car driver backed up by their team of mechanics and engineers.

https://github.com/amethyst/shotcaller

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I’m working on one such modern RTS game: https://github.com/amethyst/shotcaller

It’s a MOBA-style game that is played 1v1, with the 5 “players” on each side controlled by autonomous bots. This design accommodates AI development as part of the sport, much like a F1 driver and their team of engineers and mechanics.

The game is written in Rust and will use WASM for scripting to accommodate a wide range of languages for both game modding and AI code. While it’s only 1v1 in its initial iteration, I agree that there’s immense value in cooperative and more micro-level play, so we do intend to incrementally move towards that as an alternative game mode.

I’d love to chat more with anyone interested in this particular design or RTS/MOBAs in general. You can find my email on my GitHub.

I personally like to make small video games, and I use the game as an excuse to learn some other technology by incorporating it. I've been doing this to learn Rust [0].

If you want to do something similar, I have a huge list of video game ideas you can pull from [1].

[0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games/tree/main/2d-gam...

[1] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/four-emoji-concepts

Related: If anyone is interested, I've been working on an ECS based mini-game framework in Rust [0] that runs with this idea. It has a 1200 hz simulation clock, 60 hz rendering clock, and 150 hz physics integrator (Euler). I've also posted some example mini-games that use it [1].

[0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/mgfw

[1] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games/tree/main/2d-gam...

Tangentially related - if anyone is new to Rust and wants to see some simple mini text game examples, I've been working on a bunch [0]. It also includes some more complicated text games:

Asylum - Choose your own adventure style interactive narrative

Knights and Barbarians - Simple turned based strategy game

Legend of the Rusty Dragon - Simple adventure game inspired by Legend of the Red Dragon

[0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games