u/Birthday_Euphoric

While building my AI interrogation game, I ran into a problem:

Balancing suspects manually was taking forever.

My friends and I had to repeatedly interrogate every suspect to figure out:

• how difficult they were
• average messages before confession
• which interrogation tactics were too overpowered
• when suspects started contradicting themselves

So eventually I thought:
Why not make AI do the interrogations too?

I started running AI detective vs AI suspect simulations to automatically generate balancing statistics at scale.

It’s honestly been pretty amazing watching hundreds of interrogations happen automatically and being able to tune suspects based on actual data instead of pure gut feel.

Still experimenting with it, but this has probably become the most interesting part of building the project so far.

Curious if anyone else building AI games has discovered weird workflows or unexpected scaling hacks like this.

If anyone wants to try being one of the “human” interrogators:
The Last Question