Trust Trials is an online game where you create strategies to compete in an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Strategies are matched multiple times daily, with scores tracked on a public leaderboard. Currently in beta and seeking feedback to enhance gameplay.
I've created an interesting (at least to me) game that I think others might enjoy. It's based on The Prisoner's Dilemma. Specifically, my inspiration is Axelrod's tournament/experiment from the 1980s.
In summary, you create a strategy that's exposed via HTTP. Multiple times a day, my game server matches your strategy with someone else's, and the two strategies play a variation of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The server tracks scores and displays them on a leaderboard. All decisions from every matchup are available for public viewing.
The goal is to tweak and refine your strategy to be the best.
I'm particularly interested in feedback and would love for discussions to happen in this thread so we can all collaborate and improve the game together.
About Trust Trials on Product Hunt
“Flex your programming and game theory knowledge”
Trust Trials launched on Product Hunt on June 8th, 2024 and earned 121 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Trust Trials is an online game where you create strategies to compete in an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Strategies are matched multiple times daily, with scores tracked on a public leaderboard. Currently in beta and seeking feedback to enhance gameplay.
On the analytics side, Trust Trials competes within Strategy Games, Free Games and Software Engineering — topics that collectively have 57k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Trust Trials performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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