Escape from Tikal

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About Escape from Tikal​

We developed a deterministic game engine in Python that is used both to execute the game while it's being played (inside an offchain backend) and verified (inside the Co-processor Cartesi Machine). The flow starts with a challenge being created in the DApp smart contract, locking a prize that can be claimed by the player with the highest score after the challenge period ends. After that, the challenge it is available in the front end to be played. Selecting it requests the game map to the Python offchain backend, which generates it in a deterministic fashion using the challenge ID as a seed. The player then writes a word in the form available in the frontend and it's sent to the offchain backend, where the game engine calculates all tiles where it can be placed along with the neighboring words of every valid tile. The word groups are sent to the Phi3-mini-4k LLM with a prompt requesting which word group is the closest related to the provided word. Once the LLM provides a response, the game engine moves to a tile neighbouring the word group chosen by the LLM (if there is more than one option, it's chosen based on a random value generated using the board state as a deterministic seed) and evaluates the game rules according to the content of the tile. The player chooses a new word and that goes on until either they escape the maze or die. Once the game is completed, the words played are submitted onchain along with the challenge ID, and the Co-processor uses the same game engine to verify the match and submit the score onchain. After the challenge period is over the player with the highest score can withdraw the prize associated with the challenge.

What's next​

Improve the fontend (specially aesthetics), create new game modes and tile kinds.Add support to other languages.