Roland

Roland by Martin Alan Pedersen

Profile:

Roland the Gunslinger a.k.a. Roland Deschain of Gilead is the protagonist in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

This bot is a proof of concept in development.

Performance:

Where Ugluk favors melee, Roland favors duels, yet I'll also see how his special sauce works in melee.

Bot	Duels	Melee
Roland v0.1	1178	1523
Roland v0.2	1022	1497

Bot	Competition	Position
Roland v0.1	Duels	383
Roland v0.1	Melee	108

Targeting:

Roland shoots low power bullets to knock enemy bullets out of the air. The concept occured to me before researching it and finding it had been attempted before with unsatisfying results. This is my attempt.
Roland presently intercepts bullets fired by my implementation of linear predictive targeting.

Archnemeses / White Whales

Roland is not designed to win as much as to survive, which doesn't lend itself to strong rivalries.

Development Tasks:

• Tuning of Roland's bullet interception.
• Detect firing angle / wave hit though bullet interception and retire it, so he doesn't keep shooting at their ghosts.

"Go then. There are other worlds than these.", a knowing member of his "ka tet"

BTW, interessting POC ... go ahead!