Skotty

I learned of Robocode surprisingly late in the game, considering that I'm a Java developer and loved earlier similar games like C-Robots. I first learned of Robocode in September of 2006, thanks to someone else where I work. Since then most of my efforts have been in learning the game and developing my first robot, Athena. Although I may eventually write other robots, at present time my only other robots are very simple test bots.

I'm not currently releasing my robot for general destruction, or to compete in public competitions. I'm planning on waiting until after the competition at work, plus there are a number of areas that I still need to work on. I also need more time to collect robots to test against. I have had chronic problems attempting to access and download robots from the robocode repository website. To date, I've only been able to download a small handful of other robots. If anyone knows of an alternative source to obtain robots from, please let me know!

Rihan

Rihan takes all I've learned from Athena, throws out everything that didn't work, cleans up everything that did work, and includes new ideas that *might* work. It's a very tough job being new to Robocode and trying to develop a competitive bot without examining or using other people's code. However, I have confidence that Rihan will make a decent showing.

When I refer to statistical targeting and movement, I'm refering to my custom algorithms that use statistics as a base. It's likely very similar to Wave Surfing and Guess Factor Targeting from what I've read. For Rihan, the statistical algorithms are completetly re-written.

At present, the statistical algorithms are still under development, and the melee movement needs to be written as well. My target date for completion is 1/15/2007.

Class: Mega, for melee or 1-on-1
Targeting: Linear, Circular, and Statistical
Movement: Statistical
Current Version: 0.5

Athena

Athena was initially developed for a small competition at work. Because I enjoy trying to write everything myself, and because it was a requirement for the competition, all of my code is written by me, without examining nor using existing code from others, though I have garnered a few ideas from reading through some informational pages here and there.

Class: Mega, for melee or 1-on-1
Targeting: Linear, Circular, and Statistical
Movement: Multiple strategies, though all currently involve a pseudo-random perpendicular movement around a target (note that the "target" is not always another robot)
Current Version: 2.0

There is a zip containing almost all of the robots entered in the RoboRumble. There is a link to it on RoboRumble/StartingWithRoboRumble and welcome to the RoboWiki. -- Kinsen

Thank you for pointing that out, Kinsen. Much appreciated. -- Skotty

I am pretty much done with Athena in it's current version. Athena is big, sloppy in parts, and I think a few things need to be rewritten completely. I would say it's a relatively mediocre robot from the few tests I've run against other non-sample bots. I am starting a re-write now, but I haven't decided whether this will be a new robot or just another version of Athena. -- Skotty (12/18/2006)

I do alot of rewrites myself, I want to constantly build new bots, as almost all my tuning attempts always make it worse then the original version. --Chase-san