From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T20:34:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] BotFrenzy game (pre-alpha)

Nice idea, I've always liked robotrally.
Benoit


"Leon Torres" <leon@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.40.0201221835180.10839-100000@cruzeiro.ugcs.caltech.edu...
> Hi folk,
>
> BotFrenzy is multiplayer board game involving robots which are programmed
> with movement cards. It's been a pet project for the past month or so and
> the time is ripe to release it on the unsuspecting masses (of potential
> developers). It started out as a C++ project prototyped in Ruby, but I
> gave up on the C++ part. BotFrenzy is pure Ruby.
>
> The game is pre-alpha and barely playable. The main purpose of this
> release is to gather interest for development and acquire feedback.
> However, everyone is welcome to play with the flaky development version
> and learn from the code.
>
> Currently, the game requires Ruby/Gtk, RUDL, Ruby/GdkPixbuff and probably
> works only on Linux/Unix. I do intend to make the game playable on various
> platforms, but I need serious help to achieve that.
>
> Home page:   http://botfrenzy.sourceforge.net
> CVS howto:   http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=44533
> CVS tarball: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44533
>
> - Leon
>