Great mix of strategy/simulation/tournament
It provides the following features:
- The construction of a 3D virtual robot through a library of predefined components. The components to be connected together are: controller, engine, sensors, mobile joints, shields and weapons.
- The definition of the movement: This is very easy, just take an initial and final snapshot of the parts to be moved
- AI definition: It's not supported any particular language (You don't need to be a programmer) but simple functional blocks that describes how the robot should move towards enemy, which movements have to be used and when, etc. .. AI is the only way to control your bot, there's no way to control it through the keyboard or joy-pad, etc.. So You have to make your bot intelligent enough to looks for enemy, attack it, move weapons, hit the enemy or run away.
- Test your bot vs some demo-bot/test bot directly available in the game.
- Enter your robot into a tournament. The tournaments run offline, so You can build/modify your robots when You have time and then just enter them into next tournament. It's not required your presence ON-Line during the tournament.
- view tournaments results (3d graphic)
- Challenge someone to have a battle bot ON-line into a challenge room (useful to test your bot vs best player).
Last note:
Roboforge is open sourced from 2006, so You can have it for free. Just looks for DOWNLOAD section into new web site.
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New web site:
http://www.roboforge.altervista.org
Youtube channel::
http://www.youtube.com/user/roboforgechannel