Gun Tactyx

September 24th, 2003

I’ve been awffy geeky lately. Recently I discovered the joys of Source Forge and its CVS repository treasure trove of lovely open source applications. It’s put me in the frame of mind to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, and that is wrap up my message board into some kind of installable package and release it to the world. I am of course stumped by the most important point of all – what should I call it?

First idea was ‘flow’, because it’s short and snappy. It also sounds a bit cheesy.

Unfortunately I’ve also been stumped by the second obstacle – giving up time writing code for Gun Tactyx (via Alex)

It’s a programming game, where you have to supply the AI code for a robot army, who have to destroy another robot army. The enemy army could have AI code supplied by your mate in some kind of geek programming super-war.

My team, the ‘ninjas’ have a complex algorithm incorporating wall-avoidance, chief robot guarding, pathfinding, grouping and spacial awareness. They are smart enough to call for help when injured and will run back to base when threatened. In fact, they are so intelligent that they realise what danger they are in and the whole thing amounts to a bunch of robots hiding in a corner, waiting to be executed by the opposition.

At least they don’t shoot each other any more while they do it. Fine-tuning is required.

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