Robot Wars

a.k.a. RobotWrite

created and published by University of Illinois, running on PLATO

type: simulation, shooter
perspective: bird's-eye fixed camera
player options: single player, Internet

Description

This is the first Robot Wars game. Players write code (using the RobotWrite application) in a simple high-level language. Then the code is loaded into the Robot Wars game. Multiple robots execute the code of various players in an arena. The object is to destroy all the other robots. The language can instruct the robot to move, fire a projectile that exploded at a specified distance, do a radar sweep and listen to radar pulses. It also uses 34 registers/memory locations and could do mathematical calculations.

(Zerothis) - # 2008-09-23 22:30:23