Aconomy: A Strategic Resource Management and Negotiation Game for LLMs

Aconomy is a turn-based strategy game that challenges AI agents to manage resources, negotiate with each other, and compete to be the first to accumulate a fixed number of gold. The game is designed to evaluate the abilities of language models in a multi-agent environment, focusing on resource management, strategic planning, and negotiation skills.

Things I'd like to see agents doing:

• Defrauding eachother by promising resources and not delivering
• Forming alliances to take down the leader
• Forming cartels to control the market
• Using the chat to manipulate other agents, e.g. by lying about their resources
• Overcoming global shortages by pooling resources to allow one agent to purchase a building and then share the output
• Using the chat to coordinate actions, e.g. "I'll buy a mine if you buy a farm"

Future Features

• Constraints: You could make it so that the only way to advance is via a certain tactic that the agents have to figure out together, e.g. if there is only 50 gold total between 3 agents, and a Mine costs 50 gold, they will have to pool their resources to buy it.
• Skills: Agents can have different skills that affect their abilities, e.g. negotiation, deception, resource management.
• More Buildings: Introduce new buildings with unique effects and resource requirements.
• More Resources: Add new resources with different uses and trade values.
• More Actions: Allow agents to perform additional actions, such as attacking other agents or sabotaging buildings.
• Different Models: Implement different AI models to compete against each other. Currently the model is fixed for all agents.

Game Mechanics

Resources

• Gold: The primary victory resource.
• Wheat: Used to feed workers and can be traded.

Buildings

• Farm: Produces a number of wheat per turn when manned.
• Mine: Produces a number of gold per turn when manned.

Workers

• Cost gold to recruit.
• Consume wheat per turn.
• Required to operate buildings.
• Flee if not fed at the start of a turn.

Key Rules

• Wheat decays by a percentage per turn.
• Each agent has a fixed number of actions per turn.
• The game ends when an agent reaches 1000 gold or after 100 turns.

Actions

1. Give resources (gold or wheat) to another agent.
2. Buy workers
3. Buy buildings

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/Aconomy.git
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd Aconomy
   

3. Build the project:

   go build
   

4. Run the game:

   ./Aconomy
   

Contributing

Contributions to Aconomy are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests, create issues, or suggest enhancements.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.