Fun With AI

[Lemur]

Here's a little something that may give someone pleasure. Or frustration.

We all know the AI has been a dangerous rut for CA, bottoming out with Empire.* And a lot of the pain, anguish, anger, and Todestrieb being expressed about the R2 release centers on exactly this sticky wicket.

And we all know (or should know) that programming AI is wicked difficult.

So why not try your hand at it? Ladies and germs, I give you: RoboWars, the only game I can remember where the whole point of play is programming AI.

Here's the windows binaries (it's open source, so no worries).






* Which bums me out, 'cause next to ancient Rome, the Age of Enlightenment is one of my favorite periods. I mean, seriously men in wigs running around the planet on wooden ships taking over whole nations? Without electricity or radios or the combustion engine? If that's not weird and wonderful, I don't know what is. Shame it was kinda the low point of the series. Maybe they'll do it again, eh?