The Dodgeye blog
Notes from the people building Dodgeye: how the Watcher actually thinks, why people are easier to predict than they believe, and how to stop being.
The game
Dodgeye is a free mobile puzzle game where a real on-device AI predicts your next hop, says its confidence out loud, and fires. What we built, and the three things we refused to do.
4 min read
The game
Predictability, favoured direction, repeats under pressure and the four verdicts: what every line on your Watcher's File means, how it's calculated, and how to move the numbers.
4 min read
Psychology
Most players have a favourite side and don't know it. Where side bias comes from, how the Watcher's File measures yours, and why the AI guesses your favourite side whenever it has nothing better.
4 min read
Strategy guide
A seven-day plan to lower your predictability: one counter-rule a day, a drill in the game to practise it, and the Watcher's File to prove it moved. Built on how habits actually change.
4 min read
Strategy guide
Five tactics that beat a learning AI opponent, and why each one works: break repetition, vary your timing, bluff on purpose, punish its highest confidence, and turn its prediction into your plan.
5 min read
AI & science
People are bad at being random, and a simple predictor can guess their choices well above chance. The science behind it, and the game we built where the AI has to show its number before it fires.
4 min read
Game design
Rubber-banding, dynamic difficulty and opponents that cheat: how games fake intelligence, why studios do it, and what an opponent that actually learns from you looks like instead.
4 min read
Psychology
Your brain is a prediction machine that can't produce randomness. The psychology of habits, the “it's due” feeling and behavioural tells, and how a simple model takes advantage of every one of them.
4 min read
