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Reminds me of crobots (http://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/ http://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/) a great little game I played many years ago. In it you program you
by johnnylambada 9y ago
Reminds me of crobots (http://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/ http://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/) a great little game I played many years ago. In it you program your robot in a C like language and watch them compete in a curses based command line arena.
- netgusto 9y agoWow did not know about this one. I'm continually amazed by how fruitful comments on HN can be. Thanks!!
- contingencies 9y agoCame to mention the same. However, Wikipedia[0] says crobots borrowed the concept from RobotWar[1] on the Apple ][, but "originally developed in the TUTOR programming language on the PLATO system in the 1970s". It's a whole genre... the young'uns just haven't seen it yet! Everything old is new again! I'd like to see a twist where you could actually engineer your own weaponry using simplified physics, sort of like a cross between Kerbal Space Program and crobots, but with WebGL. I once coded a two player button bashing QBasic[2] snake version something like that, where you had competitive weaponry like flamethrowers and manually future-operable mine deployment. It was popular in our school for a few weeks. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic