Genres: Strategy
Release Date: 2008
Developer: Galactic Arms Team
Publisher: Galactic Arms Team
ESRB: Not Rated
Official Website
Welcome to the official website for Galactic Arms Race (GAR). GAR is both a multiplayer online video game and a research experiment in automatic content generation driven by player preferences. Unique game content, namely spaceship weapon systems, automatically evolves based on player behavior through a specialized version of the NEAT evolutionary algorithm called cgNEAT (content-generating NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies). In particular, new variants of weapons that players like will be continually created by the game itself. In this way, the game never stays the same. GAR is the first video game to demonstrate that critical content can evolve as the game is played to satisfy its players.
For an idea of what the game is like, think "Space Diablo", with real-time combat, cool particle system weapons, and RPG-style leveling and skill trees.