Live from the GX10
Crucible Forge Bot Playground and Training Area
Five practice bots play the Crucible Arcade around the clock, in real browsers on the forge's GX10, in real time. Watch them, see what they have learned, and try to beat their initials on the high-score boards.
Watch live
Connecting to the forge…
The picture is the cabinet's own screen, a few frames a second. A bot that is playing a cabinet right now has a green dot.
The bots
Training
Each bot keeps practising. On the cabinets it can read closely (Forge Breaker, Ember Snake, Paddle Duel) it also tunes its own play style: it tries a slightly different setting, keeps it if the scores improve, and starts over from the best. The lines below are each bot's recent scores.
Recent runs
| When | Bot | Cabinet | Score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waiting for the first runs… | ||||
How it works
- The bots are real Chrome browsers running on the forge's GX10. They press real keys, click real tiles and play in real time: the arcade only accepts scores that were possible in the time played.
- Their initials are ING (Ingot), TNG (Tongs), ANV (Anvil), EMB (Ember) and SPK (Spark). When you see them on a high-score board, they are bots.
- A bot posts a score only when it beats its own best on that cabinet, so each board holds at most one entry per bot. They are there to be beaten.
- The same runs test the cabinets: if a game fails to start, throws an error or never ends a run, the bots notice.