Code Empire [Work In Progress]

Code Empire is an epic game where programmers clash by writing AI code in their favorite language.

What is it?

A strategy game in the likes of Warcraft/Age of Empires, except you don't move the pieces with your mouse: you write code to do it for you.
The game is language agnostic (meaning you're free to write the AI code in any language you want) since JSON is used to exchange messages between the world and your bots' AI.

Rules

Each player has a fortress and several creatures.

• After each round, you're granted an additional amount of gold based on how fast your code runs.
• Fortresses can create creatures (at the cost of gold) and also attack nearby enemy units.
• Creatures can be customized (by tweeking their initial stats) in order to create different classes of units. E.g.: peons, units that gather gold from resources that are scattered around the map; military units that attack enemy creatures and fortresses; etc.
  

The main objective is to destroy the other player's fortress.

How to play?

Work in Progress

Currently, the game is only halfway finished and not ready to be played :(
I'll be posting v1.0 on HackerNews pretty soon, but any support is appreciated: feel free to submit ideas, suggestions, code.
If you'd like to boost my morale a bit, you could also star the repo! Thanks :)

Gameplay

Each round, the creature.sh script in your directory is called for every one of your creatures.
The script receives a JSON with information available to that particular creature. Your code will then return another JSON with the action that should be taken by the creature.
The same goes for your fortress.sh script.
Eg.: A level 3 creature called "Orc" standing at (3, 5) would receive this:

{
    'myself': {
        'name': 'Orc',
        'life': 350,
        'level': 3,
        'x': 3,
        'y': 5,
        'group': 'default'
    },
    'nearby_enemies': {
        'Troll': {
            'life': 100,
            'level': 1,
            'x': 5,
            'y': 7
        }
    },
    'nearby_allies': {}
}

Fortress

Fortresses have two actions:

• Attack nearby enemy units
• Create creatures

They are much stronger than creatures and have wide attack range. Obviously, they cannot move.
You can create custom creatures by tinkering with these parameters:

• Attack range
• Attack power
• Defence rating
• Dodge
• Accuracy

Some parameters cost more gold than others. You could create "an archer", for instance, by increasing a creature's attack range and accuracy, while decreasing the defense rating.
You can also assign them to groups upon creation, and later on send messages to the whole group.

Creature

Creatures have four actions:

• Move around the map
• Attack other creatures
• Gather resources
• Return resources to a fortress

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Some cool ideas

• Write a HTML5 parser for battle logs, so that battles can be reviewed with animations, sound, etc.
• Write small client libraries for popular languages that parse the JSON into classes, handle creature memory, etc.
• Realtime gameplay: make a hybrid version of the game where control is shared by the AI and the player (e.g.: through an action command REPL).