I had Fable clone a game, it turned it into an arena combat AI trainer

Name: I had Fable clone a game, it turned it into an arena combat AI trainer
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Author: rhgraysonii

by rhgraysonii·Jun 12, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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Deterministic replay plus neural-net bots that train on each other — genuinely novel.

Strengths

•Byte-for-byte deterministic replay from seed enables perfect match reconstruction and debugging.
•Four neural networks trained on tens of thousands of simulated matches create evolving bot strategies.
•Live ecosystem with betting dashboard and self-writing newspaper adds emergent meta-gameplay.

Weaknesses

•Niche audience limits broader appeal beyond game dev and AI research communities.
•Heavy reliance on Fable/Claude ($1,800 API costs) may not be replicable for most developers.

Post Description

I started off with a simple goal: port the game Soldat to Typescript. I ended up not only with the game, but with a full system to train AI bots to play my own game, building a neural net to train new bot AIs from tens of thousands of simulated matches with different strategies. It also runs live all the time on my website and has a news dashboard and you can replay any game exactly. It all was a very fun way to dig into Fable's capabilities.

The bill if I had done this with API billing? Nearly $2000.

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