Static vs. Smart: Rebuilding Our A/B Test, Training a Difficulty Model Without Players, and Teaching the Game What Level You Are

Timothy Pruitt | Timmy Hunter-Russell · October 25, 2026 · Full Sail MSCS Capstone The 30-Second Wall The month started with a bug report from my own browser: pressing Start on a new campaign threw Unexpected token ‘<‘, “<!DOCTYPE “… is not valid JSON. The cause was not our code at all. Heroku cuts off … Static vs. Smart: Rebuilding Our A/B Test, Training a Difficulty Model Without Players, and Teaching the Game What Level You Are