Hey guys!

I just recently joined this subreddit, and I wanted to know if my work could resonate with this community. To introduce myself first, I am Vitali, a game developer from Finland, and i am making a computer rts game that I plan to release on Steam next year. Does the following sound fun or relatable?

Imagine a game about hackers, where instead of a controller, your input method is a programming language, and your role is to write bots that have to defeat other bots. Here is how it looks…

Bot Combat

Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/304770/IAH_INTERNET_WAR/

The premise here is that the battles happen in cyberspace, and you are a hacker who is trying to stop evil corporations from installing blackhat government AI with a backdoor.

The Hook for the game is that Bot Combat can be played with a controller, but if you are a programmer or a hacker, you can play competitive mode on an entirely new level, like by just writing code, as I said.

You utilize the API interface and then write Code that operates these Bots, and then you battle other programmers who are using API. Now here is the kicker, if you win, you revoke their API Interface access and get rewarded. If in competitive games your skill is measured in ELO, here it will be measured how much your Bot Algo/Code will extract value from others.

The idea here is that 1) You pay for the access, and then 2) If you win, you get another person’s license, and a portion of that license is converted into cash. This is like next-level HackerOne; you can check on Steam’s last screenshot how the Leaderboard looks

Please, do tell me if this is your thing, would like to hear your opinion or feedback.

PS: Demo will be available next month.