AIMON

HOW TO PLAY

Move ↑↓←→ or WASD · Interact / read signs SPACE or E · Menu ENTER · Mute SFX M. On phones, use the on-screen pad. Two chiptune soundtracks - Gradient Bay and Island Breeze - switch or mute them in the MENU. Battles get their own theme, and captures get a fanfare.

WHAT THE GAME TEACHES

The type chart is real AI strategy

• TREE beats NEURAL - on tabular/business data, gradient-boosted trees still routinely beat deep nets.
• NEURAL beats CLASSIC - with enough data, deep networks out-learn linear models.
• VISION beats TREE - decision splits can't handle raw pixels; CNNs can.
• LANG beats VISION - language models can describe what vision models only detect.
• AGENT beats LANG - tool-using agents ground chatty models in real, verifiable actions.
• CLASSIC beats CLUSTER - labeled (supervised) signal beats unlabeled guessing.
• GEN beats CLASSIC - synthetic data fools simple statistical models.

Core concepts you'll absorb by playing

• Supervised vs unsupervised vs reinforcement learning - Classic/Tree/Neural vs Cluster vs Agent types.
• Gradient descent & learning rates - felt directly in the mini-game: small = slow, big = overshoot.
• Weights, layers, and dense connections - you literally wire them in the neural network mini-game.
• Overfitting & regularization - Overfit Tangle hits hard but misses; Prune & Heal and Dropout Guard protect you.
• Ensembles - Treebble evolves into Forestrix (Random Forest): many weak learners voting beat one strong one.
• Attention & Transformers - Attenshun's Self-Attention is the strongest LANG move, just like in real life.
• GANs vs Diffusion - two roads to generative AI: the adversarial duel and the denoising walk.
• Agentic AI - AGENTRON's Tool Call and Chain of Thought mirror how modern AI agents actually work.
• Capture = checkpointing, healing = retraining, losing = iteration. Even the flavor text teaches.

CREDITS

AIMon is an educational game by Adrian Dunkley - The AI Boss (adriandunkley.net), built to make Machine Learning and Generative AI tangible for everyone, from the Caribbean to the world. Streets in Gradient Bay honor Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, The Bahamas, Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia, Dominica, Haiti and Cuba. Walk good.