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A Z80 Sandbox Competition Game. Contribute to kingofthegrid/king-of-the-grid development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Z80 Sandbox Competition Game in which developers can write bots to compete on the most efficient algorithm to be King Of The Grid! Food and Walls are not spawned evenly: random noise is applied using FastNoiseLite on rules described on seasons.cpp Both can move around, eat, scan environment and clone themselves. Bots can clone (or fork) themselves in order to spread, fork-bomb style, or hibernate to preserve energy.

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