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Welcome to RoboWiki

A collaborative site about Robocode. Also featuring RoboRumble@Home.

Please ReadMe first (last updated October 4 2004).

Consider starting on the Beginners page if you are new to Robocode.

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• Targeting, Movement, MultiMode, Radar, EnergyManagement, IntelligenceManagement
• OneOnOne - Melee - Teams
• CodeSnippets, UtilityFunctions, DealingWithSkippedTurns, Strategy, Math
• [Robocode bot API]
• Bots - Make a page for your robot and/or any other robot you think is interesting.
• Leagues - Enter your bot into various competitions.
• See current rankings of the RoboRumble@Home on RoboRumble/CurrentRankings.
• Try your hand at one of our Challenges
• Resources - Find help on all kinds of things.
• Members - Anyone with the slightest interest in the subject. Please create a RoboWikiHomePage for yourself and/or your bot(s). If applicable, also add yourself to the ContactInfo page and post your pic in WhatWeLookLike
• RobocodeRepository - http://www.robocoderepository.com - It's what it says it is; A repository for Robocode related files. Mainly bots.

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Robot creation

• Targeting (LinearTargeting, PatternMatching, GuessFactorTargeting, StatisticalTargeting, BestPSpace, VirtualBullets and SegmentedData to name a few articles in this category.)
• Movement - DodgingBullets - WallAvoidance - RandomMovement - TrackMovement - MovementProfile - CornerMovement (a melee thingy)
• MultiMode - using multiple types of Targeting and Movement and chosing which is the best for each enemy
• Radar - Gathering intelligence effectively
• EnergyManagement - SelectingFirePower - WhenToFire - TheEndGame
• IntelligenceManagement - WhatToSaveBetweenRounds - SavingDataHowto - CompressedSerialization
• OneOnOne - Melee - Teams
• CodeSnippets -Example code
• UtilityFunctions - RollingAverage - Hanji/RobocodeUtils
• DealingWithSkippedTurns
• Strategy - OpeningGame - EndingGame - Fatality
• [Robocode bot API] - Can't be without it.
• Math - RobocodeTrigTutorial - Trigonometry - TrigChallenges
• New technique? TemplateForTopicPages

Bots - Make a page for your robot and/or any other robot you think is interesting. - Like:

• Cigaret - Aspid - TheArtOfWar - Sparrow - Duelist - SandboxDT - PrairieWolf - Tron - SampleBots
• TemplateForBotPages
• OtherPeoplesRobots

Leagues

• RoboRumble @ Home - See current rankings in RoboRumble/CurrentRankings
• RobocodeDeathMatch/Competition - where aggressiveness is all.
• RobocodeLittleLeague - Where CodeSize constrained fight for honour. Successor to the MiniBotChallenge.
• ExtendsRobotCompetition - Only Robots allowed ! It is not easy to do one thing at a time.
• EternalRumble
• Face2face - Currently inactive. you can download RoboRumble@home client from the site.
• PatternMatcherChallenge - Can you beat PatternBot? You aren't allowed to move!
• MovementChallenge - Test your movement in a controlled environment.
• TargetingChallenge - Test your aim in a controlled environment.

Resources:

• RobocodeRepository
• RoboLeague - http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~lulli/roboleague/download/ - set up your own for testing or fun
• [Control API] - If you need more customizability than RoboLeague and you're willing to put in some effort
• [Code size] - Utility to measure code size of a bot
• [Making smaller code discussion]
• Tutorial
• Links?
• [The official Robocode site]
• [Robocode FAQ]
• InterestingThreads
• TestingBots
• [Discussion] - Try the discussion site on Robocode, there is some good stuff here
• [- The Robocode IRC channel - NEW!!]
• [Robocode Outpost - A Robocode Community/League Forum - Pretty dormant these days]
• JavaAPI

Assorted grapes

• BotCategories - Survivalists
• PlayingSound
• Demos
• JustForFun - TimmyTheCheerfulMonkey - FootBallDemo - BeerPoet
• WhiteWhales
• History of Robocode

OperatingEnvironment?

• MacOSX
• WindowsXP
• GNULinux
• RobocodeGLV014 (using gl4java)
• Robocode 3D (using Java3D)

Programming

• Polymorphism
• DesignPatterns
• Coupling
• Refactoring?
• UnitTesting
• Editors
• Java Questions
• VersionControl

Development

• [Virii] - An opensource Robocode clone written in C#
• Robocode2

Members - Anyone with the slightest interest in the subject. Please create a RoboWikiHomePage for yourself and/or your bot(s). If applicable, also add yourself to the InstantMessenger page.