roboforge

[Frish]

i went on the magic, um, site that reviewed Pontifex (i beleive it started with an "F" . . its somewhere, i thing in the GD forum) and hey had this up ther.

anywho . . you build a robot from a chassi and then probably several hundred other components . .

then you give it moves . . by moving the joints and tellng it when to do that during themove

and then you give it AI to tell it which way to go and when, and when to do the moves.

then you test battle it .  against any bot on your comp.

it runs on a B&W grid REAL REAL slow . . about 20 secs for one game sec, because it is calculateing everything, and

Then it switches to high qualit mode, and it runs smooth because the battle has already been recorded.  

i have seen some specacular battls, and even better bots of min . .  some of which worked in the way i wanted to.

its fun stuff, go to www.roboforge.com and gab the demo.

its 30 megs, but if you wanna buy it all you have to do is pay em 20 dolla and it loses its softwrap thingy.

the idea is onlin ness.

its based on touraments, some of which have cash prizes.

I have a similar game called MindRover, it's pretty good. The only problem with it there's no copy and paste, and the wiring gets hellishly complicated. If you want to transfer some AI over to another bot you have to wire it all up again from scratch, which is an utter pain.

Apart from that it's cool though.

There's also one called Colobot, can't remember the link.
It's more of a campaign game, I played the demo and it was pretty cool.

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URL is http://www.colobot.com" target="_blank">http://www.colobot.com - yeah, I know, I know.
heh
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(Edited by Chillum at 2:26 am on Nov. 4, 2001)

[JohnK]

PCGamer Had a demo of mindrover a while back, I played the heck out of it. Short, but one great game.

(Edited by kvinge at 10:50 pm on Oct. 18, 2001)

[Frish]

you guys MUST check this game out.

i got onilne finally, and the MP setup is beyond great.  it runs smooth, is easy to use, and it has not crashed for me in the 16 hours i logged in the past two days.

you really must get the demo, cause then you will buy it.  its almost as addictive as pontifex.

its so f**king addictive half the players can't even sleep at night cause they busy thinking bout what they gonna do to make an awesome kill all bot.

must try this

[drug pusher]you want to try some roboforge, man, only 20 dolla[/drug pusher]

you gotta try this.

[sopwath]

There's another one called http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com" target="_blank">Robocode for all the java nuts out there.  I really like this one.

good luck,
sopwath