Hunger Games

A simulation of a game with random fighting like Hunger Games

Note: I made this for a school assignment, but decided to put it here because it was cool enough :)

How to run

Install bun: https://bun.sh/
- can be inside wsl
Install dependencies: bun install
Run game bun run start:game
- bun run start:game --print-map can print the map to the console
Build website bun run build:website
Go to ./apps/visualization/out to use the static html

How it works

The game

This is the effectively a way dumber down version of Hunger Games, but this is trying to just let the computer use random to fight in an arena. I had intended for this to be more amazing but ran out of time to actually implement cool things.

General Info:

Make large amount of people for all 12 districts
Get some people to fight in district
- Currently 10 per district (and at min ~25% split of sex)
Make it turn based
Players can move in grid to fight or hide
Map kind of inspired by civilisation games

The Map:

Turns go until only one district is remaining
Can do many actions (will discuss below)
Player’s move around the board doing their action
Point of game is to eliminate all other players (as long as they are not your teammate)

The Actions:

Move is for going to random place without player
Fight is finding the closest player with least health
Nothing shouldn’t be used
Hide makes it harder for other players to see them – lower chance of going on that tile (for both fight or move)
Loot is finding lootbox

"Genetic Algorithm":

This works by finding the best player for each district and “copying” its stat
The next year’s players uses that but +/- a bit
Every year the amount of change is reduced And thus the players learn from previous participants

Can view latest simulation: https://github.com/RiskyMH/Hunger-Games/actions/workflows/action.yml

The visualization

Shows some data from the game:

Age distribution grouped by district
The 4 changeable actions on columns coloured by districts
Population per year by district – population/deaths/births
The top person leaderboard for all years (ie 11th)

Can view the latest graphs: https://riskymh.github.io/Hunger-Games/

Future goals

Try and make this an actually playable game and not just a simulation
Add items to make the game more interesting (ie bow and arrow)
Give districts their own unique bonuses

RiskyMH / Hunger-Games