CHIMPS, But an AI Chooses My Monkeys

I made an AI that picks what monkeys and upgrades I can use in a CHIMPS game. I still get to control where they are placed and their targeting, but outside of that, I'm at the mercy of CHAD (the AI).
It is programmed in Python and I used q learning to teach it some 'decent' monkey orders to pick.
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[@Hbomb]

My goal is to make this thing be able to play on its own, but that is still a ways out :)

[@sword_pro_8]

That'd be cool to see

[@vigglewiggle5396]

You’re almost as handsome as Sam with that beard

[@mhyc22]

I think i remember a guy that did the same thing

[@gemstowne3100]

This is giga-brain so original

[@brainlessnoob9820]

your twitch chat aren't bots, they know glue best tower

[@milkinaglas]

It would be cool if it told you where to place them but not the upgrades. That could lead to an interesting game...

[@Hbomb]

That's the next step/goal for it!

[@FlummoxTheMagnificent]

How did you make the AI, and can you link it?

[@trikegang6671]

If that is made then it would be 100% possible to let AI beat games on its own. Farming monkey money would be so easy

[@pustota7254]

@@trikegang6671 someone did this already.

[@vittocrazi]

just for the record, thats cheating@@trikegang6671

[@MutantDestroyer]

HBomb: "what is after first strike" AI: "Win!" HBomb: *the panic sets in*

[@Hbomb]

Lmao, I was hoping we'd do more

[@CCG175]

@MightyRexT Has Returned yes👍

[@Teh-Dee-bear]

@MightyRexT Has Returned which Bloons KZbinrs are your going add in your picture BTW?

[@flossbob3157]

@MightyRexT Has Returned Jason alukian dabloon

[@L-ua22]

@MightyRexT Has Returned tbh id remove tewbre and replace it with dabloon and alukian/jason/tewity

[@David_TheSuperior]

Imagine if he lost, the ending screen woulda said "BEARD SHAVED!"

[@Poltargot]

it would've been hilarious

[@Pichulover69]

Imagine the top comment spoiling the ending.

[@Hbomb]

Lmao

[@fernandodebrida7542]

@@Pichulover69 imagine reading comments before watching the video.

[@Pichulover69]

@@fernandodebrida7542 I watch on mobile so one of the comments were visible before I clicked on it.

[@quelqunx7470]

Here you go guys, a strat that beats all beginner maps, almost all intermediate maps, and some advanced maps.

[@tylerlambert8400]

obyn druid op

[@dashingclasher]

and dark castle

[@Matt_395]

Yay

[@aberagames]

@@tylerlambert8400 ye or apache prime overclock

[@letsparty1473]

With water

[@VeeHarmony]

I do remember awhile ago, that someone did manage to make an AI somehow beat CHIMPS.

[@truffleworm9888]

his name is B2studois I think

[@shalvei_]

@@truffleworm9888 huh, always thought it was Code Bullet, I checked just to be sure and you're right, it's B2studios

[@lukeguo3966]

@@shalvei_ code bullet is in no way affiliated with ninja kiwi games

[@TaxEvasion1452]

@@lukeguo3966 neither is b2studios, or any youtuber

[@flossbob3157]

Tewity

[@apre8566]

Can’t wait to see CHAD play all their own.

[@Hbomb]

Same!

[@mobgabriel1767]

"a sub into triple guns" your tactics confuse and frighten me sir

[@Hbomb]

Lmao

[@Tuasmanque]

I know it's generally too much of a snoozefest to talk about model mechanics, but it would be very interesting if you could say more about how the Q learning problem is set up (e.g. it seems the game progression is modelled like a grid world?), reward function design, etc. As someone who works in this space, hearing the words "epsilon greedy" in a bloons video is a nice nerd out moment :)

[@aido.8149]

u won’t, it’s fake LOL

[@chrisss2305]

Don’t scare me like that Hbomb. When I heard that If you lose you are gonna shave your beard, I almost died. Please never shave your luxurious beard

[@Hbomb]

Lol, I won't shave it.... at least for a while

[@PassTheSnails]

Yo this was crazy interesting. I’d be down to see more!

[@Hbomb]

More to come!

[@untoldtemple01]

Damn! Chad really is a Chad! That's an amazing strat!

[@Hbomb]

Yeah it is. Chad is OP

[@dzigayu4944]

Some people learn Python to get a programming job, others take it a whole another step.

[@Hbomb]

lol. Why not both?

[@PROBTD]

Can u link the bot, I need help beating chimps lol

[@Zombs2279]

He low key made a black boarder tutorial on streambed lol

[@Hbomb]

Lol, it did work surprisingly well

[@aido.8149]

Would love to see an in-depth video on how the ai works !

[@Ristohy]

3:07 yea maim mobe

[@emilzaborowicz4105]

I am wondering if this confirms that being a bot in BTD6 is like boeing a bot in chess. Preety good.

[@Hbomb]

Could be!

[@ColeDaNerd]

This was a great series

[@interndoug3513]

good concept solid execution

[@Hbomb]

Thanks doug!

[@ColetheFlame01]

To be honest, my favorite chimps strategy is bloons expertise, Icicle Impale, bloon solver and then as many extra tier 5 primaries as possible. Any hero except for obyn and striker jones does work for this but I find Sauda to be the most reliable to get you through the early game. this has worked so far on Meadows and Town Center but I'm certain it would work on all beginner maps at least and any map that lets a bunch of primary monkeys next to a village.

[@awing84]

Great audio editing, perfectly timed the music with the win 👏

[@moonbow3641]

Love in the hall of mountain king in the background

[@ranger3130]

actually amazing how the ai actually managed to win chimps

[@paul_gaming43]

NO NOT YOUR BEARD TAHT IS THE MOST EPIC THING!

[@Azazel0664]

2:03 that's senator Armstrong from metal gear rising!

[@farawayhere]

2:02 ARMSTRONG?

[@mujtabaalam5907]

1:48 how did you turn your score for each decision into a grid? What do the axes represent?

[@Hbomb]

There was upgrades, monkeys, and score

[@mujtabaalam5907]

@@Hbomb Oh so the grid must have been a lot bigger than what you showed in order to capture all that data, right?

[@Hbomb]

@@mujtabaalam5907 yes. MUCH bigger

[@Tigey1500]

6:06 I didn’t think it would win

[@lucca2091]

A bloons youtuber who's also a programmer and talks about algorithms in the video? Instant like and sub :)

[@Hbomb]

My man!

[@NutsBeStinky]

You would like DougDoug

[@legonugget123]

Where do you see the streams is another channel?

[@Funcrashmalej]

If i were to play with an AI like this and giving me that strategy over and over again, i would never be able to get through single CHIMPS...

[@supriyomandal1641]

Nice btd beard man ! 🤣

[@Hbomb]

Thank you!

[@hulk4045]

Hbomb gets all of his power from his beard like geraldo getting his power from his mustache so its goos Aİ picked good towers

[@Hbomb]

Shhh. Don't give away my secrets

[@Zeldrake]

Hbomb's beard is safe!

[@arhaam1390]

What monkey should I buy the tier 5s upgrade in BTD Battles? (Sorry for my bad english) Also I would like HBomb to make this a video idea

[@LughSamildanach]

Would love more of this!

[@jerrymanjoe]

Thank god Hbomb kept his wonderful beard

[@kaelentamayo7310]

YES YES YES THE BEARD IS SAVED

[@cryptchaos2378]

THE BEARD LIVES

[@TheNotableSircheese]

Ima use this for a tutorial

[@Hbomb]

Let me know how it goes!

[@BartholomewWiggum]

@@Hbomb alas, he is kept in the cruel realm of curiosity

[@grooteras1947]

Could u put a link Ort Download for the ai? So we can relax and have the ai do the stuff. And also see if it works on other maps!

[@nebulaplays1061]

Tewbre beating chimps on dark castle with an ai like 2 years ago be like

[@jerhayn]

do more do more please this is the greatest idea of a bloons video

[@akiveogonzalez6085]

3:26 YOOOO

[@StepBaum]

Thats a cool video, would love to see more :)

[@chimstar6160]

Bro the Ai plays better then me

[@racso4440]

Noooo not his beard

[@Mutant_Tracker]

Mobe - EM OH AY BEE - moabbbbb Massive Ornary Air Blimp:

[@Hbomb]

Mobe gang for life :)

[@Mutant_Tracker]

Massive Ornary Air Blimp. Brutal Floating Behemoth. Zeppelin Of Mighty Gargantuaness. Dark Dirigible Titan. Big Airship of Doom (i dunno why but i always use long names of the blimp class)

[@ShroomYGaming]

NOT THE BEARD

[@sfisher923]

Bloon Sabo is my version of Glue Gang even if I can beat the game without it I still have it just case (Unless I'm doing CHIMPS with Monkey Teams)

[@hero_bs__ig]

I like this AI strat tho it needs some modifying and it'll be solid

[@Nico_SL312]

You should do one where its ENTIRELY random and you have to beat an expert map with this. Basically like a btd6 version of those pokemon nuzlockes

[@greenscout171]

Make it that it chose ur monkeys and makes you sell a tower

[@joeman123964]

out of curiousity what are you using exactly? programming language and software? (I'm a software engineer so just curious)

[@giogio4222]

When a robot does better than most of your runs...

[@tdogbromz3281]

Tiwty has done that ask him

[@Darkishappy_2872]

bro really said "mœb"

[@Hbomb]

Mobe is where it's at

[@shanec198]

NO NOT THE BEARD

[@vaulmoremack3072]

dude do one for an expert map

[@nid7600]

Hey, love what you have done here, do you mind showing us the code of the program u used, or maybe uploading the program?

[@chrisofunyt1329]

Tewity did this, but the ai played and chose the map and it did pretty good, maybe you should do the same thing as hi,

[@Hbomb]

I'll give it a shot!

[@TheSmogglerSmugg]

idea : how about let a ai generate a random monkey but you cant see the name but only the art then if your answer is final if correct you can place it but if incorrect you cant upgrade any monkey activate abilities or use powerups while beating chimps also dont worry about the upgrades you can upgrade the monkeys

[@Zeqt_x]

Now do it on #ouch

[@nightmaresans9161]

Ah yes, main mobe and mihbs

[@storm3664]

More ai vids?

[@Hbomb]

That's the plan!

[@cashkv2291]

How do I use this for a stream?

[@X4R80]

save or shave

[@Hbomb]

That's good! Let me write that down

[@LeWolfYT]

maybe put a link to the ai in the description, or at least the training files

[@Wolverineslayer8]

I know, deep down, you really wanted to shave the beard Josh

[@Hbomb]

Lol. I'm growing it out for a year, then it's gone

[@MAXI2006O]

1:39 sub triple gun Don't should upgrade the new sub to triple?

[@Hbomb]

I could. But it shows the exact upgrades (in order)

[@MAXI2006O]

@@Hbomb 👍 very nice ai

[@Pearl11216]

When the ai is done, are you goin to make it public or something?

[@Hbomb]

Probably

[@Pearl11216]

Ok

[@mustache_XL]

Not the beard

[@sagnikbhar5701]

Best yt

[@Poppopper5367]

I know that his beard will grow back and he doesn't have a lot of face cam videos but it's gonna look so weird

[@ys6a685]

Can you make a tut?

[@ProApple111]

you souñd so much like mysticat

[@otteralex5571]

He should do this with chat gpt

[@P1necone88]

Your beard isn't safe yet.....

[@Hbomb]

Will it ever be safe?

[@P1necone88]

@@Hbomb maybe.

[@insertusernamehere2664]

Hbomb it’d be cool if u made longer videos of u playing

[@Hbomb]

Like challenges, bosses, or black borders?

[@insertusernamehere2664]

@@Hbomb all of it

[@zachpace930]

a.

[@svennyboy8296]

GLUE GANG

[@bennypearson754]

whats hbombs creator code?

[@kirinc-s.7156]

how complex was this to program?

[@Hbomb]

About 300 lines of code. It wasn't too bad

[@kirinc-s.7156]

@@Hbomb nice, I didn’t know you were a programmer!

[@locrianphantom3547]

Un ironically a black border guide.

[@TheMan10what]

man man soultion

[@TheMan10what]

@hbomb07 im not gonna fall for it

[@2crackhead6]

He look like a chad with the beard ngl

[@kittycat713]

nice

[@ianleather5699]

Never shave your beard

[@diobrando4452]

glue gunner

[@ninjatubes9219]

I hope he doesn’t get rid of his beard lol

[@Hbomb]

I won't any time soon :)

[@katsuna404]

My druid name is ultra jason before you!!!

[@Man_fard772]

Ai makes u get 000 village for r100

[@grogu2736]

GG

[@Hbomb]

gg

[@logando9534]

what happend to the avatar?

[@Hbomb]

he vanished

[@kainourm6134]

Huh CHAD in thumnail is god bc 000 glue solos round 1000 and is more powerful then a vtsg plus all level 100 parigons Joke this is a joke and i dont care abount my spelling i am going fast

[@dewmmd]

N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-NAH

[@ishadowking4288]

When you did no dealing damage you used glue gunner and when you won the game you didn’t actually win without dealing damage

[@Thiegocolla77]

Oka

[@vArmistice]

You were complaining about the skull, why didn’t you just remove the skull? You said the AI was for towers and upgrades, you never said anything about you not being able to remove objects.