Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds
0.25.18 - 0.26.0: ELO based ranking system
Meanwhile, I have had a bit of time to add some features and polish to the game as well. Most recently, I added an ELO based ranking system, which means you now have a chance to meet anyone in the game on the battlefield! Though the likelihood to battle someone is less for teams that are much stronger or weaker than your team.
Here's the full changelog for the past couple of weeks:
$$ 0.26.0 2020-10-07
ELO based ranking & matchmaking
- Each player now has an associated ELO rating, which is updated when you battle someone.
- There are five fixed divisions; Diamond, Ruby, Gold, Silver and Copper. Your rating determines your division.
- Matchmaking is based on ELO ratings. The selection is weighted to favour teams you're likely to have an even matchup with (not too hard, not too easy), but you always have a chance to fight any active team.
- You need to play a minimum of five matches to show up in the rankings.
$$ 0.25.24 2020-09-15
Python Reinforcement Learning Environment
I'm happy to announce that there is now an OpenAI reinforcement learning environment based on the game available called [Derk's Gym website](https://gym.derkgame.com)!
$$ 0.25.23 2020-08-16
Load Derkling brain from another Derkling
$$ 0.25.22 2020-08-14
Limit number of runs when using scheduling
$$ 0.25.21 2020-08-10
Add item stats to item tooltips
Such as damage, cast time, cooldown etc.
$$ 0.25.20 2020-08-10
Kill, victory and loss bounties added
When a unit is "pushed" (e.g. Magnum), their fall damage is attributed to the one that pushed them.
$$ 0.25.19 2020-08-07
Move bounties to Derklings
The bounties are now associated with the Derklings themselves, rather than with the training setup. There is also a "presets" feature where you can save and load bounty configurations. This also made it possible to do "dual" training again (train both sides at the same time), which has been re-enabled.
0.25.9 to 0.25.18: Organize Derklings, Manual gold bonus, Load brains and more
$$ 0.25.18 2020-08-06
Bug fix: "Statue takes damage" bounty
$$ 0.25.17 2020-08-05
Edit bounties in main menu
$$ 0.25.16 2020-08-05
Deterministic focus
Focus was previously determined by CDF sampling the decision outputs from the Derkling. This meant that a Derkling couldn't precisly determine which enemy to focus on, but could only give them higher likelyhood to be choosen. This has now been replaced with a simple argmax. The reason for sampling was originally to give battles variation; I wanted each battle to be unique, and sampling outputs was an easy way to do so. But as the game has evolved there are now other factors that ensure that each battle is unique, reducing the need for this.
$$ 0.25.15 2020-08-05
Bug fix: attachment slots wrong order when creature is "away".
$$ 0.25.14 2020-08-04
Nerf Cleaver: Casting is aborted when the target goes out of range.
This tweak applies to all abilities; a target must remain in range for an ability to "hit", and channeling abilities (Heal, Vampire gland) will stop channeling if the target goes out of range. To be considered "in range", the target must also be in front of the caster.
$$ 0.25.13 2020-08-04
Tweak matchmaking
Matchinmaking is reworked in this version. Instead of each opponent in the same group having an equal chance to be choosen, they are now weighted by the "points opportunity". For each opponent in your group, you have a maximum of 10 potential points since they are a best of five, and a victory counts as two points. So if you for instance have one victory and one tie against a particular opponent, then you'll have 3p (this is how it worked before this patch as well). Since the maximum is 10p, you have a 7p "opportunity", which is also the weight for the chance of choosing this opponent. There's also an indicator added next to each opponent, which will tell you what your current "best of five" state is.
$$ 0.25.12 2020-08-03
Derkling tags
It's now possible to "tag" your Derklings, to easier arrange them into groups!
$$ 0.25.11 2020-08-03
Nerf helium bubble: Remove "is on ground" requirement for casting abilities
Abilities can now be cast when the Derkling is in the air. This means that they can cast abilities while being in a helium bubble.
$$ 0.25.10 2020-08-03
Save/Load/Reset brains
$$ 0.25.9 2020-08-03
Manual gold bonus
If you see a behaviour you'd like to reward a bit extra, you can now do that with the "manual gold bonus" button! The reward can be configured in "Misc bounties".
Enjoy!
Better bounty (0.25.4)
- In this patch the bounty system has been rework to be both simpler and more flexible. Instead of assigning bounties to things, you now configure bounties for each of your trainee Derklings. This opens up for lots of fun things to explore, for instance you can configure one of them to focus on healing a specific teammate, or create defensive Derklings that prefer to stay at home.
- You can now have multiple training configurations, and they each have their own set of bounties associated with them.
- And finally, you can now schedule training of these configurations to make it even easier to train your Derklings exactly as you want them!
Derk dev live chat
Derk is a MOBA-style game where the characters are controlled by deep neural networks rather than humans! Your task is to manage a team of AI creatures, train them, and battle them against other players.
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Derk is a MOBA-style game where the characters are controlled by deep neural networks rather than humans! Your task is to manage a team of AI creatures, train them, and battle them against other players.