Heist Architect
A strategy game where you plan a heist and the AI plans against you. Built to make pathfinding algorithms watchable.
What It Is
A turn-based asymmetric strategy game built to make multi-agent AI planning legible. You plan a crew on a clear 2D tactical map; the AI plans against you.
The whole point was explainable AI — you can see why the agents move the way they do.
The Algorithms
The planner uses A* pathfinding and Conflict-Based Search for multi-agent coordination, CSP-style temporal constraints for objective ordering, and Bayesian tracking that models guard suspicion as a probability heatmap.
Built in TypeScript, with an AI-vs-AI spectator mode and an interactive tutorial — the algorithms are far more interesting when you can watch them think.
Why Bother
Search algorithms are usually taught as pseudocode on a whiteboard. Making them playable turns Conflict-Based Search and Bayesian inference into something you can build intuition for.
