2022 Season Featured Happy Holidays from the Battlesnake Team! We're so grateful to have such a dedicated global community of developers who play Battlesnake, and wish you all a safe & happy holiday season 🎄
Battlesnake Developer Update - November 2022 As Fall League finished up, the team was heads down working on infrastructure, with the biggest changes coming in the form of the new Rules 2.0 release! Rules 2.0 We did a big cleanup of the Rules project in November with the goal of making a 2.0
Fall League Results are in! With the dust still settling from the penultimate competition of the 2022 Battlesnake Competitive season, we are thrilled to share the final standings from the Fall League Platinum and Elite Tournaments. 📑Read on to discover who claimed the title of: 🥇 Platinum Tier Champion 🏆 Elite Tier Champion 👏 People's Choice Winner Platinum
Battlesnake Developer Update - October 2022 The team spent most of October running Fall League and working on some major new updates for the 2023 Competitive season that will be announced in December and January. Despite that we managed to get a few new improvements out for the platform. Account Dashboard The new Account Dashboard is
2022 Season Featured Announcing the 2022 Fall League Tournament Qualified Battlesnakes With the Fall League leaderboard official closed, let’s take a look at the top tier Battlesnakes who qualified for the live tournaments streaming on Twitch on November 2nd, 3rd and 12th 🏆
Announcements Are you creating awesome Battlesnake content? Share it and get rewarded! We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Battlesnake Creators program, a brand new initiative to celebrate creative contributions made by Battlesnake Developers from around the world!!! 🎉
Battlesnake Developer Update - September 2022 September was a big planning month for Battlesnake. We got the entire remote team together for an onsite to discuss roadmap and brainstorm plans for the 2023 Competitive Season. There are a lot of exciting things coming in the next 6 months! Around all that planning, we managed to get
Announcements Applications Open for Fall Cohort of the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship! Applications are now open to join the Fall 2022 cohort of the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship, a collaborative initiative that supports women and non-binary developers from across Canada in taking the next step in their journey as a professional developer—through Battlesnake.
Fall League Registration is Open! Don't miss your chance to join the final public league of the 2022 competitive season! Find out what's new and what's staying the same for Fall League so you'll be ready for battle when the competition begins on September 30th. Register for the 2022 Fall League Competition!📘New to Competitive
Battlesnake Developer Update - August 2022 A lot of things came together in August for the Battlesnake team, including improvements to almost every corner of the platform. New Docs We rebuilt and relaunched docs.battlesnake.com using the Docusaurus platform. This gave us a lot of power to improve the usability of the docs and provide
Featured Comparing 5 Free Hosting Tiers (that don't require credit cards) Deploying code without handing over your credit card information can be a challenge. So I decided to review the process of deploying a simple Python web application from a GitHub template on: GitPod, Heroku, Railway, Render, and Replit.
2022 Season Summer League Results are in! With the dust only just settling from an exciting summer of Battlesnake, we're thrilled to share the final standings from the 2022 Summer League Competition. 📑Read on to discover who claimed the title of: 🥇 Platinum Tier Champion 🏆 Elite Tier Champion 👏 Peoples Choice Winner Platinum Championship Tournament An incredible 16 Battlesnake's
Battlesnake Developer Update - June 2022 As Summer League 2022 wrapped up and moved into the tournament phase, the development team focused some new features for Battlesnake! New Customizations and Battlesnake Points! In August, we are introducing a new rewards system called Battlesnake Points. As you explore the Battlesnake platform and complete goals, you will automatically
Unlock New Head and Tails with Battlesnake Points Introducing Battlesnake Points! Which can be used unlock new head and tail customizations for your Battlesnake. There are over 100 customizations to collect and new heads and tails being released regularly. In this post, we'll cover what Battlesnake Points are, how to earn them, and where to spend them. The
Announcements Featured Announcing the 2022 Summer League Tournament Qualified Battlesnakes With the Summer League leaderboard official closed, let’s take a look at the top tier Battlesnakes who qualified for the live tournaments on Saturday, July 23rd and Saturday, July 30th on Twitch.TV/BattlesnakeOfficial 🏆
Battlesnake Developer Update - June 2022 This month we bring you news about Summer league, game maps and improvements to the Battlesnake CLI!
Build your own Battlesnake Maps! We've open-sourced the code behind custom hazard maps, making it easier to build your own maps in code, and register them to be used with the local CLI.
Developer Updates Battlesnake Developer Update - May 2022 This month we bring you news about Battlegrounds, rule changes, and hosting your very own tournaments!
How to Monitor your Battlesnake with New Relic As anyone who has written any software knows, the next emotion you experience (after the elation of your program running successfully the first time), is mild puzzlement as you whisper to yourself "Why did it do that?" Battlesnake is certainly no exception. As your code grows in complexity, the likelihood
Introducing Battlegrounds—a new way to play Battlesnake > A new way to play Battlesnake called Battlegrounds [https://play.battlesnake.com/battlegrounds/] is officially open! Battlegrounds will replace Global Arenas, which will shut down on May 31st. Battlegrounds is a recurring month-long competition where developers can enter their Battlesnakes in ladders to earn achievements and accolades. Each month, we
Announcements Applications Open for the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship Applications are now open to join the Summer 2022 cohort of the RBC & Battlesnake Developer Fellowship, a collaborative initiative that supports women and non-binary developers from across Canada in taking the next step in their journey as a professional developer through Battlesnake.
Developer Updates Battlesnake Developer Update - April 2022 Happy end of April everyone! For your reading pleasure, please allow me to present to you a review of what the Battlesnake team has cooked up this month. No More 1st Turn Corner Food One should always have a healthy suspicion of a random number generator, and while we do
Announcements New DigitalOcean Engine Regions: Toronto, Frankfurt, and Singapore In November 2021, Rob was able to announce an incredible new Battlesnake feature he had been working very hard on: Engine Regions. Today, we are pleased to share that he has emerged again from behind his monitors to let us know that we have expanded global coverage with new Engine
2022 Spring League Tournament Final Standings With just over a week since the end of an exciting Battlesnake competition, we're thrilled to share the final standings from the 2022 Spring League Platinum and Elite Tournaments.
Developer Updates Battlesnake Developer Update - March 2022 And just like that, March is over! Spring League 2022 has come to an end and the Battlesnake Dev team is now planning out what we can release before the next League kicks off in June. But first, let's review what happened in March! New Double-Win Tournament Play Those of
