The game we have been writing is loosely based on the computer game Spacewar! If you are not familiar with Spacewar!, it was the first computer game ever written. It originally ran on a PDP-1 owned by MIT and was written by an MIT student named Steve Russel, in 1962. Back then, just getting a computer to display graphical output was difficult enough. Spacewar!, as well as many other early game systems such as Pong, were designed to be played by more than one person. That was because programming a computer to behave like a human was a very difficult thing. That is still somewhat true today, although more processing power and data allows modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to behave much more intelligently than they have in the past.
Because our game is a single-player web game, we do not have the benefit of using a second human intelligence...