https://nikhilcad.github.io/tags/neat/ Recent content in NEAT on Nikhil Kadiyan https://nikhilcad.github.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://nikhilcad.github.io/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.124.0 en Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0530 https://nikhilcad.github.io/blog/shooter-neuroevolution/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0530 https://nikhilcad.github.io/blog/shooter-neuroevolution/ I’ve wanted to implement NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) from scratch for a while now. Every tutorial I found online just does pip install neat-python and calls .evolve(), and that felt like cheating myself out of actually understanding it. So I built a small twin-stick space shooter in C++ with raylib, and instead of playing it myself, I let a population of evolving neural networks play it for me. No PyTorch, no gradient descent, no backprop.