Battlesnake is an AI competition in which you build AI-powered snakes. Battlesnake's rules are similar to the traditional snakes game. Your goal is to be the last surviving snake when competing against other snakes. Developers of all levels build snakes using techniques ranging from unique heuristic-based strategies to state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. You can use the SageMaker Battlesnake Starter Pack to build your own snake and compete in the Battlesnake arena.

Battlesnake is an AI competition based on the traditional snake game in which multiple AI-powered snakes compete to be the last snake surviving. Battlesnake attracts a community of developers at all levels. Hundreds of snakes compete and rise up in the ranks in the online Battlesnake global arena. Battlesnake also hosts several offline events that are attended by more than a thousand developers and non-developers alike and are streamed on Twitch. Teams of developers build snakes for the competition and learn new tech skills, learn to collaborate, and have fun. Teams can build snakes by using a variety of strategies ranging from state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to unique heuristics-based strategies. This post shows how to use Amazon SageMaker to build an RL-based snake.