Classic Robots Game

[rdc]

Here is the classic Robots game written in FreeBasic. Bug reports welcome.

[hellfire]

This exit is unreachable:

The robots can only move north-south and east-west

They soemtimes move diagonally, too.

[rdc]

Thanks I'll look at that.

[combatking0]

Do I download 01 or 011?

[rdc]

D/L 011. It has the teleport in it. I forgot to add that to the first version.

[rdc]

v. 0.1.2 is out:

Dec 16, 2009 v. 0.1.2

1) Fixed a bug where robots would move diagonally.
2) Changed distance calculation so robots converge on character better.
3) Changed exit placement so it would not be unreachable.

I couldn't reproduce the unreachable exit bug so I just changed the placement routine to not place an exit at the border. I hope it fixes it. It seemed to work fine for me.

[hellfire]

Changed distance calculation so robots converge on character better.

This makes it very predictable where a robot will move.
Maybe you can choose a bit more randomly between the two possible positions?

The game becomes quite easy when moving diagonally because you're twice as fast as the robots.

[rdc]

Yeah, maybe I'll just allow them to move any direction especially since you can teleport. Thanks for the input. I'll play around with this some.

[Shockwave]

That's a nice game, I had never played it before. The text graphics remind me of a game called NCSnipes which I used to love playing back in my College days This game is a totally different idea to Snipes, I just love the ansii gfx though. Totally retro.

I died on level 5 due to a stupid mistake.

[rdc]

Thanks!

I thought I would use my Glyph Maker program to make some glyphs for this:




I'll probably make an option to use either ascii or glyphs for it.

[Clyde]

I need to practice more!

[combatking0]

Brill game - I must get Snipes made soon.

I have encountered a bug, where the level exit was below the playable area, and I couldn't move onto it

[rdc]

Yeah, I finally found the problem and fixed that for the next version. Thanks.

[rdc]

New version up:

Dec 18, 2009 v. 0.1.3

1) Changed robots movement to all 8 cardinal directions.
2) Added graphical mode to game. Player can choose ascii or graphics.
3) Fixed unreachable exit.