AI Bot Bash

Demo actually works now!!!

AI Bot Bash is an Artificial Inteligents programming game for super nerds like me! I'm intending it to be a play by e-mail games but I'm seriously consideing making it a web based compition game where you submit your robots/tanks teams and they battle it out in a competition.

anyhow, it's still at a very eary stage and the graphics suck right now. Also the tanks don't destroy anything, but you get the idea.





If you want to try to write your on AI for the tanks you can load the script in the scripts folder and modify it. The code is based on FPS Creator's scripting language and is fairly simple

example
:state=0:radarrange=100,radarviewangle=90
:state=0,enemyseen:movefore

These commands first set up a radar, and then tell the tank to move foreward if an enemy is seen in radar.

:state=0: This is the condition block, it's always true or false

There can be multiple conditions

:state=0,enemyseen: If all conditions are true, then the actions after the conditions are activated

Here is the files for you to play with.
Download Demo Files Here

you can update the AI script live by hitting the U key.

*drools* Nice. I'll have a play.!

lol- its the ashtray olympics according to SoggyP :)

nice looking. I will try it out later when i get the chance

lol, their oil tank ashtrays!!! There's a difference! I have a lot of work to do to get the artwork up to speed. hopefully I'll have some actual destruction taking place in the game soon.

AI stuff - nice.


Wait - it is broken - it doesn't run - has an error message.

sniff.

Wah!! I'll have to check that.

Yeh, something to do with not being able to find 'Logo.png'.

Yeah, the rar file got messed up when I uploaded it. I fixed it. Should work now

Yep, that was it. The RAR archive got corrupted. Nice! It works now.

I'm washing my hair.

I was wrong. It was a stupid direct file referance. God I hate that. I always forget to change the name of my project directory to make sure that there's no files trying to dig in there.

Meh, I notice that they do the exact same thing, all the tanks, every time. And then they get clumped together.


BUT, it's looking good and a very interesting idea!

Well yeah. The AI sucks at this point. I'm just in the game frame work stage. Altimately they will have different code for each bot. For now there is only one script. Not the best demo, but I wanted to show something. Once I get the damage system in place, we should see some better interactions.

can you upload a .zip file, cant use .rar, what are they anyway?

So this is BAIT only now it stands a chance of being done because its one person?

Just a competing compression algorithm. It's more efficient than .zip, leading to smaller files, but unfortunately not as widely supported.

WinRar is shareware, but you can also get a freeware 'unrar' program that can extract archives from http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

Just got my first robot model into the game. in the process of coding the animation playback. Looks good so far.

thank you xlsior,

[edit] hang on, i have the program installed, the aibotbash downloaded, now what i do?

Nice, another clone of the widely known robocode (.sf.net) :-)

Too bad you couldnt make this in BlitzMax, then you could use LUA scripting.

But either way, this looks nice, keep going ;)