Paper Loop 2

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Abstract

You are a snek. 🐍 Loop out from your turf, draw a shape, and close it to swallow everything inside — the more ground you claim, the bigger you get. Your tail is your weak spot: slice a rival snek's tail to knock them out, and never let anyone slice yours. There is no grid here — your head carries a real heading and banks into smooth, continuous curves as you steer, so carving a daring arc around a rival and sealing it off feels like drawing, not stepping. The arena is a circle — drift too steeply into the wall and you are gone. Your opponents are neural bots: a small reinforcement-learning network trained by self-play, running entirely on your device. Pick AI HARD to face the trained net, EASY SCRIPTED for a gentler hand-written bot, or NO BOTS to paint in peace. Inference runs off the render thread, so it stays smooth even on modest phones. Features: * Free, continuous movement — smooth curves, not four-direction steps. * On-device neural self-play bots (no network needed) plus a scripted fallback. * Three opponent modes and an optional respawn toggle. * A circular arena with smooth, rounded territories and a clean ribbon trail. * A local high score per mode. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no network access. * Tiny download and fully playable offline. Paper Loop 2 is built with libGDX and is free and open-source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.