How it works

Battlesnake is powered by Python and Twisted. The bot connects to your game over telnet, just like a user would. It sets some semi-random tokens on its player object that allows your softcode to communicate with it via @pemit.

Your softcoded commands end up being mostly for gathering up the relevant data to @pemit to Battlesnake. If the commands need to send a reply back out to a player, the bot does so with @pemit as well.

What is Battlesnake ideally suited for?

Battlesnake is best used for larger, more complicated systems that would be easier maintained in Python than softcode. Battlesnake may be paired with your choice of database or data store, with softcode commands used to feed game state data to Battlesnake. The bot can also pull things from the game on its own if you show it how to.

Example usage cases

A few ideas for neat things Battlesnake can be used for:

• Web-based character creation
• Adding an HTTP API for your website’s use
• Tweeting/SMS’ing/emailing certain events to your playerbase
• Very detailed player stat tracking (perhaps shown on your website)
• Stuffing arbitrary bits of data into a full-fledged database
• External AI
• Web-integrated bulletin board systems
• Economic simulations
• Research/industrial/assembly systems