Developer revisits first technical test at LuizaLabs, documents Quake 3 log parser project

A developer has revisited and documented their first technical assessment for LuizaLabs, completed early in their career. The challenge required parsing Quake 3 Arena game log files to extract match statistics — including player kills and world-caused deaths — and exposing the results via a REST API. The developer structured the solution into three distinct layers: a pure parser, a Flask API, and optional MongoDB persistence, which made isolated unit testing possible. A key rule required that kills caused by the game world not be credited to any player, and instead deduct one point from the victim's score. The write-up also covers debugging issues such as the world entity being mistakenly counted as a player and Python import path errors during testing.