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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: Im>bE on June 01, 2004, 02:04:52 AM
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I might even force myself to use a pc
just to try this game/simulation out,
(and copy its ideas in my own games).
Especially when it is about something
that interest me immensely.
But please try it before me,
and tell me if I really should
force a headache on myself
by using a pc to try it.
http://www.mindrover.com/mindrover/mindrover.htm
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Sorry, not completely original. That's just a polished, 3D-graphicky version of an old game called CRobots. In the original, you had an ascii screen and you programmed the robots in a subset of the C language, but it's all pretty much the same idea. It's not a bad idea by any stretch, it's just not an original idea :-)
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oh... well... when there are only ~2 games
of this type, then it is 5000 times more original
than the FPS type for an example.
So, anyone tried it yet?
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I remember a PD game where you had to use a GUI to manually wire up a little junebug to find food and avoid spiders and such. I can't seem to find a link for it at the moment, though. Shame, it was really a good educational game for children. (And the last levels were somewhat challenging for teens to adults, too.)
There's also IBM's Robocode, which is java-based and totally free. It's more coding intensive than the others, but also has competitions with other users bots, etc.
Robocode link (http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html)
As far as Mindrovers goes, it looks like they want you to pay to download it. Personally, it didn't look interesting enough for me to pay to try it.
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Back in the stoneage (somewhere around 1989) there was similar game for the Amiga. Tha box even shows Apple][ screenshots. You had to programm the AI of a tank and test it in a combatarea or against other programmed tanks.
The name of the game was OMEGA and was bublished by Origin. I have the box right in front of me but there is only the handbook in it (around 1.5cm thick pagecount: a few hundred), can`t find the disk :-(
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I tried Mindrover a few years ago. I don't remember it well; I probably had fun for a couple of minutes.
There is another similar but better game, whose name I unfortunately don't remember, involving programming robots to get ore, kill baddies, etc. on different planets. You can (must) also control some guy in a space suit so it's also an action game. I'll try to find the name...
Edit: found it! it's Colobot ( http://www.colobot.com/ )