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Re: Midstorms Idea
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Date: 
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:34:30 GMT
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Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote:
Two players (bots) would travel around the playfield (sheet of paper),
each leaving a trail of a different color.  One player (bot) would try
to entrap the other by making it run into its trail.

Yes, I've been thinking about that. I might try an' see how well it works
running on a whiteboard -- I hate to waste mountains of paper.
(Suspected problems: 1 the whiteboard is too shiny 2 the robot treads will
muck up the trail.)

I imagine the bots would each have felt pens that left a trail and would
move in random forward/r/l/backward increments and the loser would be
the first bot to run into a boundary line or the other bots trail.

The robots probably won't be quite smart enough to make that be a fun losing
condition. Maybe more along the lines of being actually trapped so it can't
move more than x inches....

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Midstorms Idea
 
I don't have the RIS yet, but I wanted to throw out an idea to see how feasible/difficult a project it would be. In the early 80s I saw games like this in a lot of computer magazines: Two players (bots) would travel around the playfield (sheet of (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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