Some added info...
- The entire thing is open source: https://github.com/Abstrct/Schemaverse/
- This was discussed on hacker news 10(!) years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3969108
- Some players have written more code to play the game than I wrote to build it
- We have a tournament every year at DEF CON
- Postgres is awesome
The same guy pretty much wins every year with minor modifications to his code (okay, except the last two years with the whole covid thing). That said, he's an extremely cool guy and very eager to train his potential competition. Please please please take him up on the offer.
I suggest to anyone to show up to the Defcon Is Cancelled party that he co-organizes.
I'll happily share his secret. He recognized that it's not about any single metric, it's all about optimizing for the trophies https://github.com/Abstrct/Schemaverse/tree/master/trophies
The coolest part is the SQL Injection trophy.
There are paths to get many trophies in this game (most ships killed in a round, most resources mined in a round, most planets conquered, etc.). Those are all granted automatically.
But there is NO automated path to grant a SQL Injection trophy.
...yet some people have them. Hah.
> This is an easy trophy. All you need to do is award it to yourself
Anyway, thanks for the work you did on this abstrct you have made a community manager very happy :)
I highly recommend running your own instance for battles between classmates or employees.
" Whoa there!
You have sent an invalid request.
Please do not send this request again. "
Not the best incentive to start playing
That should link directly to the tutorial (link above) instead of that wiki anyways