OpenEuphoria

Re: Cool Game Idea - Anyone want to help?

• Posted by Steve Mosher <goat at DEVIL.ISN.NET> Feb 29, 2000
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A long time ago I played a sweet little DOS game called 'warbots'. I know
there's a discussion going on about violence in games et al. but that's
not what made this game great. You programmed a robot to defeat other
robots by rocketing, creaming and (the best tactic, but no one knew about
it) ramming. This game taught you to write *tight* code, since each robot
had the same priority at the instruction level. The language tried to be
pascal-ish, which made things simple and easy. I think something
euphoria-like might be a little overkill, depending on the extent of the
AI you wish to develope.
        My advice is to reward tight code, no matter what you use for a
language. This is how I learned to code efficiently (years before I could
actually write real code), and I think it would be beneficial to
the 'community' to emphasize this -- people playing this game will write
efficient code or they will lose.
        Warbots did wonders for me, my bot was undefeated once I tuned it
properly. My friends wouldn't play with me any longer since they weren't
into it enough to really get into the code. I want to see more games like
this, there are plenty already, but they aren't all that popular -- but
they'll all teach you to write efficient code. I'm going to have to get
back into this...

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Jeffrey Fielding wrote:
> Thanks. For a scripting language, I think a subset of Euphoria, possibly
> with some object-orientation (since the robots are very object-oriented)
> would do nicely.
>
> Jeff Fielding
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Pilkington" <rpilkington at netzero.net>
> To: <JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 12:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Cool Game Idea - Anyone want to help?
>
>
> >
> > Sounds cool. I'd like to help.
> >
> > Any ideas on how the scripting would look? I've seen several different
> > scripting types, and they all look wildly different.
> >
> >
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