[eerrt]

Am I the only one who thinks this is a little overengineered?

[ssivark]

Not unlike most neural network solutions :-P

But hey, this seems to be a fun project more than anything else. And working in such low-dimensional spaces with an obvious disentangled representation (only shot strength and angle matter) might provide intuition to beginners.

[atum47]

yeah, I'm thinking about stealing wind strength and direction from the Worms game

[verst]

Remember Gorillas from the QBasic language? That had wind speed and direction. Perhaps helpful.

https://github.com/GorillaStack/gorillas/blob/master/gorilla...

[goldenkey]

Gunbound was extremely complex with all kinds of variables including boomerang style projectiles.

[atum47]

think about it like this:

with a 10 minutes training the neural network takes about 8 shots to hit the target, so as the player, you have 8 shots to hit it before it hits you.

after 20 minutes of training the nn would take about 4 shots to hit you... so on and so forth.

the original idea was to have several levels of difficulty and distribute them across the game levels.

levels 1-10 poorly trained nn levels 2-20 better trained nn levels 30 and above you got one shot before the nn hits you.

anyway, it was just an idea

[rs23296008n1]

Never just an idea. Remove the "just". It is a realised idea and it was important that you execute the idea and, to whatever useful extent, finish it. Don't allow that negative wordplay. Don't make light of this and think there are no consequences in keeping that diminishing, passivity inducing "just".

[jeffshek]

This is the light that shines through cynicism - the light that makes people brave enough to post new stuff.

[atum47]

I'll remember that. Thanks

[stanfordkid]

On point! So much harder to execute and create something real and tangible than pontificate.

[armatav]

This poster is correct - “just” takes away from yourself, it’s an idea.

[darepublic]

well its kind of a hello world-ish example within this domain so I am fine with it

[atum47]

probably not