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Fun AI sandbox game?
MikeMan
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This may seem like an odd question, but here goes.
I remember playing a game on the Apple IIe that had robots that fought each other. There was limited programming available for these robots, and you would set them up and they would duke it out. It was fun, or so far as I can remember, because I was about 5 years old at the time.
I am not looking for that game.
I am, however, looking for something in the same vein. Preferably freeware/shareware. Something that allows you to experiment with programming limited ai and having things battle each other.
There was a game a while back that allowed you to breed generations of mans, using artificial selection, and have armies fight each other. That game was an awesome premise, but turned out being too limited, and you couldn't engineer sophisticated enough patterns.
So basically, anyone have any games they know of that fit that description?
tl;dr I'm looking for an A.I. sandbox game that's freeware or shareware.
Help me internet, you're my only hope!
I remember playing a game on the Apple IIe that had robots that fought each other. There was limited programming available for these robots, and you would set them up and they would duke it out. It was fun, or so far as I can remember, because I was about 5 years old at the time.
I am not looking for that game.
I am, however, looking for something in the same vein. Preferably freeware/shareware. Something that allows you to experiment with programming limited ai and having things battle each other.
There was a game a while back that allowed you to breed generations of mans, using artificial selection, and have armies fight each other. That game was an awesome premise, but turned out being too limited, and you couldn't engineer sophisticated enough patterns.
So basically, anyone have any games they know of that fit that description?
tl;dr I'm looking for an A.I. sandbox game that's freeware or shareware.
Help me internet, you're my only hope!
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Don't know if they're still around though. Last I heard the company had gone bankrupt and where trying to sell the rights to the game.
Edit: Huh, turns out it's actually gone opensource as of 2006 according to the website.
http://www.roboforge.net/index.htm
http://www.roboforge.net/download.htm
http://z.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/nero/index.php
It's not scripted, but you train your little guys to fight other AI. Most games use genetic AI, but neural nets are becoming more common. You can look up other games at http://www.gameai.com/exaigames.html .
If you're into something more difficult, you can always program your own Risk bot in Dominate. I think they're using LUA. Pretty much any board game has a bot community.
Its less of a game than you probably want and more programming, but its pretty good. It's Java based but has a fairly simple API.
I have not. Thanks for the suggestion!