Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours

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I built a satirical browser game to share with friends (Hormuz Havoc: you play an American president managing a crisis in the Middle East, only "loosely" inspired by current events). I had good fun making this, but that's not necessarily the interesting part.The interesting part was that within a few hours of sharing it with my friends, some of them set about trying to overrun the leaderboard by launching a swarm of AI bots to learn the game and figure out how to get the highest score. This set off a game of cat-and-mouse as they found vulnerabilities and I tried patching them.Within hours of sharing, someone used the Claude browser extension to read game.js directly. Large parts of the scor

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Website: www.hormuz-havoc.com