robots

AI-controlled teams of robots battle it out on a 2D battlefield.

Overview

robots is a real-time 2D game where teams of robots compete to destroy each other. Robots are controlled by AIs running over network connections. Players compete by writing an AI to control robots.

The robots

Each robot is identical and is fitted with two weapons:

• laser: this has unlimited ammunition, but has a limited range and will overheat if overused (requiring a cool-down period). Lasers do a small amount of damage.
• missile: this can be fired only once. It has unlimited range and will travel indefinitely until it hits a robot. A missile hit will destroy a robot.

Robots act independently, but may communicate to nearby robots through a system of coloured signals.

Usage

Start a game world server:

./main.py

Start a single robot running AI/ExampleAI, joining team 3, on a server running at localhost port 12345:

./Client.py --ai=ExampleAI --team=3 --server=localhost:12345

Once robots successfully connect to the game world they immediately start to act autonomously according to their AI.

Writing an AI

TODO

Known issues

• Very messy graphics code.
• Game world server/port currently cannot be specified.
• Laser cooldown is wrong.