Robot Battle

by Brad Schick

DESCRIPTION OF ROBOT BATTLE

Your goal is to create robots or teams of robots to compete in tournaments against friends and other players from around the world. Robots fight in a rectangular arena, attempting to eliminate each other by firing missiles, scanning with radar, dodging, ramming, avoiding mines, and collecting energy bonuses. The last robot standing is the winner. Once a battle is started, your creations are on their own; you can not assist them. To win, you must have programmed them better than the competition.

Robot Battle challenges you to design and code intelligent robots using a simple programming language. This makes Robot Battle both a challenging game and a fun way to learn programming.

Programming in Robot Battle is focused on strategy rather than low level optimizations. The game rewards robots with the best strategies rather than those with the most efficient or best written code. This allows even inexperienced programmers to compete with more experienced professional programmers. If your robot is smarter and more adaptable than another player's robot, your robot will win even if your code is less efficient.

SPECIFICATIONS OF ROBOT BATTLE

Genre:
Puzzle, Science Fiction, Programming

Language:
English, German

Operating System:
Windows 9x, Windows XP, Windows NT

Game data:
Binary executable, Data, Source Code

Licence:
MPL

TIMELINE OF ROBOT BATTLE

Released: 1 January 1992
Rereleased: 22 November 2004
Added to RIP: 9 June 2005

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