JROBOTS - News

INFO	Main Docs FAQ News Tutorials Interviews Forums Mailing List
ONLINE	BATTLE ARENA Accounts Uploads Downloads Hall of Fame
\| No-Limits Challenge: JROBOTS FOREVER! (January 6^th 2010) \|\| October-December Challenge: The End! (December 26^th 2009) \|\| October-December Challenge: JROBOTS 2K9 Q4! (October 3^rd 2009) \|\| September-October Challenge: JROBOTS 2K9 Q3! (July 4^th 2009) \|\| April-June Challenge: JROBOTS 2K9 Q2! (March 28^th 2009) \|\| Old News \|

GAME
Main BATTLE ARENA Hall of Fame Downloads Accounts Uploads
INFO
News Docs F.A.Q. Tutorials Interviews Forums Mailing List Contact leo

Visit the APOCALYX BLOG!

News

August 30^th 2003

The results of the August 2003 JROBOTS Challenge are available at the Challanges Page.
Finally we have the first (real) Cadets promoted to Veterans. There are in particular two jrobots, DOOM and Starkle, that gain percentages higher than the average of my jrobots. Also bohan achieved a good percentage in Single mode. Another new jrobot promoted is DeadDuck but it seems less effective. A lot of my jrobots were promoted too, but they already made an attempt to survive in the Veteran's League and they failed, so it is very likely that they are going to fail again.
Only RoboTard and Leech were not promoted, but they remain in the Cadets' League because they got at least a percentage of 25% in Single or Double mode or 12.5% in Team mode. Only Redstorm doesn't fit the requirements and it is removed from the arena.
The Veterans' League saw again the defeat of the complete set of jrobots coming from the Cadets': Jimbo, MarukoV4, Vampire and Ciaky will face the incoming novices during the next tournament.
IonStorm placed first in all the three categories with a percentage in Team mode that can't be compared with the others: The KillerBees' record is now repeated, still one tournament and it is going to be broken.
Now you can upload your jrobots to win the September 2003 JROBOTS Challenge (September 6^th-27^th 2003) aka Cadets vs Veterans!
I must still fix some major bugs before releasing the first demo of GUN-TACTYX, but it won't took very much. In the meantime, you can already download the "Player's Manual". It includes a description of the game, an introduction to the SMALL scripting language and the documentation of the functions that interface the bots to the environment.
You can download the manual from the Games/Docs folder in the downloads section of the APOCALYX site. There you can read the final list of functions that bots can use to interface to the surrounding world. If you like JROBOTS, you'll definitely love GUN-TACTYX.

August 2^nd 2003

The August 2003 JROBOTS Challenge starts now.
Remember that you can send your robots even in the course of the challenge, so you're never too late. To read the results in real-time simply visit the Veterans' Battle Applet page or the Cadets' Battle Applet page. Good luck!

For more information
send an email to
TETRACTYS Software