mikeBot News

OLD NEWS

July 11, 1997
    I'm a somebody
Noticed today that I'm on the planet quake Who's Who list. (Under programmers). Also, the lack of updates/progress is due to work; I am a tour guide for Bi Way's Cycle Tours, which has kept me busy lately.


July 4, 1997
    Mars Pathfinder
Mars Pathfinder landed succesfully on Mars today at 9:57 PDT. Go check out the web page, etc.; very cool stuff :)

    Ability Summary
The summary page was updated with some new navigation information.


June 30, 1997
    More Notes
I put an algorithm for determining if a point is inside a polygon on the developer notes page.


June 27, 1997
    Button
There is now a "mikeBot now" button:
mikeBot Now
Feel very free to put it on your page ;)

    Banner
I added the animated banner, and made the newspaper articles into columns. I am working on floor-polygon-based navigation, now, as the low-level stuff (avoid walls, lava, random roaming) is done. I also added a counter yesterday.


June 18, 1997
    More Updates
Big update gap; oh well. Itchy Bot was added to the links page, and more pages were given various small updates. Have fun.


June 9, 1997
    Updates
The mikeBot Language page was updated, as was the navigation, fire summary page.


June 5, 1997
    Skill
Added a percentage-based skill setting; it sets his probability of hitting.


June 4, 1997
    Navigation !
mikeBot navigates! Albiet very crudly. Read about it on the navigation section of the summary page.

    Links
I added some AI, a-life links.


June 3, 1997
    mbl- updated
The mikeBot Language Spec. was updated, adding (many) socket commands and a couple more say commands. Please send me your feedback.


June 2, 1997
    Summary Updated
The Navigation and Firecontrol summary was updated with more navigation information and a new section thoughtfully titled "other".

    Sometimes-miss
mikeBot will now occationally miss his targets (on purpose). Read the explanation in the navigation, firecontrol summary.

    FAQ
I wrote a client-side quake bot FAQ.


June 1, 1997
    Fire Plans
Discussion of mikeBot's amazing tendency to always hit his target resulted in new fire plans.

    mikeBot language
I added some more mbl- commands to the human-bot portion of the language standard. The socket portion is awaiting the organization of some sort of discussion between us bot authors...

    Progress
The progress page was updated again.


May 21, 1997
    Progress
Finally got around to updating the progress page. mikeBot now has proxyVision (doesn't allow the clients to control mikeBot in any way) and is learning graphs for the BSPs.


May 19, 1997
    Summary added
A summary of the capabilities of mikeBot's navigation and firecontrol subsystems has been added. It is in "plain" language...


May 18, 1997
    Nav updated
The navigation section now has a description of the genetic algorithm (GA) I plan on using to get better target selection parameters...


May 16, 1997
    Demo Fixed
People having problems downloading mikebot4.zip: your problems are over. I re-uploaded it and everything looks fine.


May 12, 1997
    Bad Place Blasted
mikeBot's newest action movie has been released, and features mikeBot killing with abandon in The Bad Place, avoiding lava and generally having a whole lot a' fun.


May 11, 1997
New Look

The mikeBot Project recently received a makeover, sources say. Project leader Mike Warren was quoted as saying, "I like the new look, especially with internet explorer". The makeover was performed by trained professionals; "Don't try this at home," they urged.

Version 0.2 Source Missing

Seeming to follow in the footsteps of version 0.1, the next release of mikeBot's client-server source, featuring improved entity tracking, easy entity and weapon determination, better demo recording and more user commands, again sliped through the hands of the mikeBot Project Security and into the so-called "public domain" beyond the Project buildings. Project leader Mike was quick to point out, however, that mikeBot version 0.2 is still copyrighted by him and is in to way even remotely GNU.

Line intersected near BSP

Near the BSP-tree border, the notorious "Line" was recently intersected, using radical new technology enabling bots to actually see walls...

mikeBot wreaks havoc

The Dark Zone recently had a rash of frags when mikeBot version 0.2 was unleashed upon unsuspecting spectators. Using new jumping and vision technologies, mikeBot was able to start recording midway through the mayhem and produced a remarkable video of his bloody trail of destruction...

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