Prisoner’s Dilemma Strategy Simulator

The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a hugely influential game in the field of Game Theory. In Richard Dawkins’ seminal 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he describes a competition organised by political scientist Robert Axelrod in which competitors could submit code for strategies for playing the game which were then pitted against each other. In this NodeJS app, I implement my own version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma game, along with an array of popular strategies. I discussed this project in a presentation I gave for BrightMinded about Game Theory which can be seen below.