Tantilla

The tantilla is a family of small, secretive snakes.

A cautious Battlesnake AI written in Javascript using NodeJS / micro.

1. Don't go outside the ring or hit other snake bodies (including yourself)
2. If health is low, go get food
3. Otherwise, "chase your tail". While doing so:
   • avoid food
   • avoid squares threatened by larger enemy snake heads
   • favor squares which have many open squares ("degreed of freedom") around them

Room for improvement

• The search is only one ply deep.
• There are various "weights" and "fudge factors" that could be adjusted

Try it

• Running on repl.it: Tantilla
• or find it as a "Public Battlesnake" via morganconrad/Tantilla when you Create a Game at play.battlesnake.com