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Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds

$4.99
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Developer:
Mount Rouke Studios
Publisher:
Mount Rouke Studios
Platforms:
Windows Mac
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About This Game

Welcome to Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds!

This is a game where you train Derklings, a creature with a neural network brain, to fight for you! The game takes place in a wonky western-themed MOBA setting, and as you battle other players you earn upgrades and items for your Derklings. The challenge is to figure out the best loadout and training strategy for your Derklings!

There are tons of strategies to explore, as the Derklings can be taught to do an endless number of things (thanks to the neural networks). How about teaching one of them to heal a tanky Derkling? Or make one of them dash through the opponents and go straight for the opponents statue? Or an all-out DPS team? Or try to make them trick the opponents? There's a lot to explore.

The game employs "real" artificial intelligence. The Derklings have neural networks with over 3,000 parameters. They can "see" over 30 things and take decisions on their own. The technology is similar (but simplified) to what researchers at OpenAI used to beat top DOTA players two years ago.

Some things to look forward to:

  • A dead simple way to get started training your own neural networks creatures. Just load them up, set some goals (bounties) and hit train!
  • Some technical details; the agents employ a RNN with over 3,000 parameters and 32 memory slots, and are trained with GA (Genetic Algorithm). Plenty enough for them to come up with all kinds of strange, funny and clever solutions!
  • A bunch of fun upgrades, such as a horn, a shell, huge guns, bubblegum and much more. They all change what the Derklings can do and what they might learn.
  • A global ladder where you can battle other players and earn new items.
  • Neural network visualizations for those who wish to dig deeper into the brains of the Derklings and fully understand their behaviors.
  • A community of people fascinated by AI and neural networks.

Dr. Derk wishes you and your team the best of luck!

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User Reviews

Mostly Positive
19 user reviews
74%
Positive
16 hrs at review
Recommended

Very fair price for what you're getting. It's interesting to experiment with, and fun to compete with other players. Hopefully there'll be a lot more of those soon! :) Super easy to understand and get into, even if you're clueless about AI or neural networks. You'll be equipping your creatures with items and putting them into a custom training arena, where you can decide on the fly if and how much to punish or reward them for certain actions. When you think they've learned enough for now to get higher up the leaderboards, you can put them to the test against other players' teams. Once you begin a training session it continues automatically until you stop it, so I find that it's the perfect type of thing to have running on the side or in the background while multitasking on my PC, periodically checking in on how it's going and adjusting things as needed. The dev so far seems quite responsive to feedback or suggestions, which can be conveniently sent and discussed via the in-game UI.

9 helpful
5 hrs at review
Recommended

Really fun game you can let it run in the background and enjoy it. Cant wait for the updates and see what more fun things you can do with it. You can let it run in the background training your bots until you are happy with the results. And then battle other players for a quick match. Its also extremely fun to watch how neural networks help train AI. - quick tip - since I didnt see a tutorial - to get new upgrade battle items just by participate in battles

7 helpful
4 hrs at review
Recommended

Building your team in this game is really neat since there's a lot of room to experiment, it can be a little grindy since you need to spend some time training them and winning matches to get some items, but overall its pretty fun. Also, there's a high chance you'll like this game if you're into AI and all those deep learning shenanigans. Really fun and a nice time killer, pretty cheap too. Definitely worth giving a shot.

6 helpful
14 hrs at review
Recommended

Seeing my creatures develop new strategies is very interesting! You really have to think about how you want your creatures training and what item combination might be good. It is a lot of fun and a very unique concept. The developer is also active and friendly.

3 helpful
16 hrs at review
Recommended

Very well worth, ive been following neural network incorporated games and this one takes the cake so far. Team building is addicting and there are countless of strategies that you can discover in the game. Within my time playing, ive also witnessed some meta's that other users use. It's fun seeing how your team and your rivals/opponents teams evolve as days go by. Seeing familiar names in the review section as I type this too :)

3 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Sadly, the game is dead in EA state!

2 helpful
104 hrs at review
Recommended

If you have been intrigued by AI researchers showing AIs trained to overcome obstacles and fight, this game is made for you. Set up a training scenario and watch them learn by fighting hundreds of battles per minute. I often have it running in the background attempting to train some interesting behavior. A bit early access feel at this point, but major bugs have been ironed out already by the responsive developer.

2 helpful
60 hrs at review
Not Recommended

In this game you get a dinusourodogomeow, a small pet to train, you train it badly to be agressive and kill other dinusourodogomeows or help your other dinusourodogomeows kill goups of dinusourodogomeows. or train it to be a traget in tranning for other dinusourodogomeows. and they have actuall brain so they are alive. GG iguana buy yes EDIT: the developer stopped updating it, chacnged to negative because the game is dead

2 helpful
4 hrs at review
Recommended

It's a really cute and fun way to play around with RL

1 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

tried many times, keep steam login call failed, cannot get in the game.

1 helpful

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System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512mb Video Memory, capable of supporting WebGL 2.0
  • Storage: 100 MB available space

FAQ

How much does Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds cost?

Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds costs $4.99.

What are the system requirements for Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 512mb Video Memory, capable of supporting WebGL 2.0 Storage: 100 MB available space

What platforms is Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds available on?

Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds is available on Windows PC, macOS.

Is Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds worth buying?

Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds has 74% positive reviews from 19 players.

When was Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds released?

Dr. Derk's Mutant Battlegrounds was released on Jul 28, 2020.

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