Bots Recieved and Approved:
Mogly
Cybex
Tastylamp
Claxor
Eggy
JD
jmtb02
FrostedMuffins
Peturo
Niki
DingoEatingFuzz
Newsdee
AuthorBlues
Void24
Vengeance
Ferretter
Glaiel
Paranoia
Defrag
Chris K. (jm Forums)

20 Bots! And still some on the way. If you are not on the list, this means you haven't PM'ed or Emailed me it. I have also updated bots as they have reached me.

As for the next AS competition, I'll let someone else start the next competition since this one was a lot of work. It will probably be a team battle with dodgeball or something similiar.

The competition is going to be hot. I'll post round one battles on Monday (everyone battles on Monday unless you have a bye, which will only happen if we have a strange number of bots that results in 1 or 2 not battling).

I am randomly generating the battles Sunday night. Everyone will get a random battle and corner, and the corner placement will be 2.5 x and 2.5 y pixels away from the corner (I promise on my life everything will be good).

I have also decided to extend awards to the last 4 bots, which I will ship with the Firestorm awards (sorry, still a bit behind, but I am getting a nice stack of awards made for people this weekend).

Remember, deadline Sunday at 11:59 PM.

12pm EST?

Wow, 20 contestants! This will be interesting. I'll just be a bystanding spectator. Or announcer...or something.

"Who will be...the top bot?"

Hey, if you were thinking of making this into a game or something, maybe the viewer could choose the battles and events. We could also add an image of an arena or maybe several different. Also, specific arenas could have specific traps that a bot could trigger. Maybe some of the bot creators could design arenas as well.

Just some ramblings...

Why dont you design (or get me to design) a more interesting arena? Is it essential to the coding that it is pure white? I think it would look a lot cooler if it was made to look like a parking lot or fighting ring or something.
Claxor, your victory dance is amusing but your bot is one of the stronger ones I've seen so you might consider making a more elborate one.
These are really fun to watch! cant wait for the tourny.

I made a special arena for all the battles. Lots of stat keeping and it's prettier than this one.

The only problem with special arenas is that everyone has already made a bot. It's a bit hard to implement since the AI is already done on all the bots. Good idea though :).

If an artist wants to draw a nice 600x600 arena, they can send me one by pm or email. I made a simple background one.

Everyone make sure their victory dance actually only triggers when they win. I have a few bots that like to trigger every time.

At 1/6/07 08:55 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Everyone make sure their victory dance actually only triggers when they win. I have a few bots that like to trigger every time.

*coughglaielcough*
Anyway, I'm probably gonna make a fancier victorydance tomorrow, I'm not very creative at 3AM :P

At 1/6/07 08:53 PM, jmtb02 wrote: If an artist wants to draw a nice 600x600 arena, they can send me one by pm or email. I made a simple background one.

Neat. I have an idea for one or two.

At 1/6/07 08:13 PM, jmtb02 wrote: As for the next AS competition, I'll let someone else start the next competition since this one was a lot of work. It will probably be a team battle with dodgeball or something similiar.

I had some really neat ideas for a sequel (venegence has them saved in a msn saved convo)

Some of the ideas I had:

Programmable missiles. You have a max of 5. Every 5 seconds you automatically replace a lost one. You can program your missiles (but they blow up after a few seconds, so you better hit something). You have rotate, increase speed, and decrease speed. A missile can take down another missile. All your missiles have the same code.

You can ALWAYS move your bot, regardless of whatever actions you take.

There's reloading + shooting in a similar manner to the current form, however the bullets reach the whole screen, do less damage from farther away, and you can only shoot 1 bullet every 3 or so frames. Reloading takes 5 frames to recover 1 bullet.

Healing is no longer an option that can be available anywhere. There are 4 healing stations, 1 near each corner. Each station has 1000 life. While on a station, you can choose to heal 1 point per frame, but you take double damage when on a healing well if you're hit. Healing stations can also be destroyed, and then remain unusable.

Mines can be thrown to any spot within 100 pixels of your bot and activate instantly (so if you're close you can mine an enemy if it doesn't dodge the mine as you throw it)

If you're really close to an enemy, you can choose to melee it.

There might have been more, but with these options it would make the game much more based on skill as opposed to luck and would offer more strategy, especially with the missiles

At 1/6/07 09:01 PM, Claxor wrote:

At 1/6/07 08:55 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Everyone make sure their victory dance actually only triggers when they win. I have a few bots that like to trigger every time.

*coughglaielcough*
Anyway, I'm probably gonna make a fancier victorydance tomorrow, I'm not very creative at 3AM :P

FINEEEE
http://denvish.net/ulf/1168135650_glaielbot.f la
http://denvish.net/ulf/1168135665_Vector.as

NOW BATTLE ME PEOPLE

I made some bots if anyone wants to use them, either take them from here or PM.msg me and ill send you the .fla
I might make an arena later tonight

Simple arena.

Opinions? Changes? This can go for anyone.

At 1/6/07 09:17 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Simple arena.

Better file.

Forgot to specify .swf size.

At 1/6/07 09:17 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Simple arena.

Opinions? Changes? This can go for anyone.

meh, it works as a very simple one. The text is a little hard to read.
If i get round to making one it's gonna be done in photoshop with textures and rust and whatnot, maybe add some cool lighting or something. Is that gonna be ok, jmtb? or is Masterswordmans plan of simplicity a better idea? I dont wanna waste my time but if I can make complex ones then I'll be happy to make a bunch. I was thinking you could add like red flashing lights in flash but that would probably cause lag. Also you were saying people should code in an end animation unless they win but what about a death animation, if it's simple?like small explosion. Considering i am not doing any coding for this, I'm thinking about it a lot

The as arena is 600x600. Make it as complex as you like, but if you are using crazy amount of vector, just turn the area into a bitmap and send an image file.

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4958/botba ckgroundwt1.png

Btw JMTB gave me permission to rrun the next bot battles cause he doesn't want to run 2 in a row. I already posted my ideas, so spit out some of yours

The backgrounds look cool, everybody, but remember that bullets are single lines of black pixels; Anything too busy is going to make the fight really hard to see. Try keeping things to the lightest shades of grey, very... backgroundey.

Also, Glaiel, you were wanting some people to fight you; you might have missed this cool little thingy I did. Refresh the page for completely random fights, your bot is one of the ones in the queue.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5882/match1h w6.swf

At 1/6/07 10:17 PM, Defrag wrote: Also, Glaiel, you were wanting some people to fight you; you might have missed this cool little thingy I did. Refresh the page for completely random fights, your bot is one of the ones in the queue.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5882/match1h w6.swf

my bot needs to be called "glaielbot" or else it can be glitchy

Ah, sorry about that. I just reverted each bot's name to it's actual user's name. I've been screwing with mine some anyway, I'll reupload in a few minutes.

At 1/6/07 10:17 PM, Defrag wrote: The backgrounds look cool, everybody, but remember that bullets are single lines of black pixels; Anything too busy is going to make the fight really hard to see. Try keeping things to the lightest shades of grey, very... backgroundey.

Shit, I forgot about that. Just made these two but now I will have to alter them so you can watch the battles properly.
http://img69.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asbot warbghv6.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asbo twarbg2yv6.jpg

comments anyway, please.

At 1/6/07 10:47 PM, TheHappySheep wrote: comments anyway, please.

Neat. I know nothing of photoshop. :-(

I finished my bot, now it owns!. I'll send it tomorrow i still need to add the victory dance

You're not accepting the FWETENDER?
The FWESTROYER!? The fwetacular.. meh

I hope AB doesn't win, because he's a whore. Have a good battle!

Well, I am going to just submit my bot now. I have no more time to devote to this project. Well, technically, I shouldn't have devoted any time to it because the first half of January is always a extremely busy time. However, I did make one, and it is very inefficient, but it has a lot of spirit. That's a lie. Anyways, good luck to everyone.

Claxor, Glaiel-Gamer, and I:
http://denvish.net/ulf/1168153254_aswars2007d ev2.php

I feel that my bot will do much worse in the actual tournament. I hope to do better in the next one when I am not busy.

-SkyLark

At 1/7/07 12:15 AM, fwe wrote: You're not accepting the FWETENDER?
The FWESTROYER!? The fwetacular.. meh

I didn't know whether the bot you posted on the forum was final or not, because I asked people to email them. I'll swoop up your bot now, and if you want to edit it, make sure to PM me.

Gutted, I hoped I'd have time to code something this weekend but thanks to a format/install yesterday that went horribly wrong (no data lost, just took a lot longer than expected) I think I may as well rule myself out now for this year's competition. Looking forward to seeing the battles, though, good luck to all.

That's okay Denvish. Better to get your work done :).

@ Fwe, I take that back. Your bot shoots crazy lasers, disqualified forever.

Pretty cool though. A+.

@ everyone, 24 hours and counting to get your bot done. Claxor has updated his bot 4 times now, so if you want to submit an update, please do so. Three days of competition, everyone fights on day one, top 2 of each battle fights on day 2, the final battles on day 3. Also exhibition battles on Day 3, such as Free-for-all everyone's in battle.

Bots Received and Approved (22):
Mogly
Cybex
Tastylamp
Claxor
Eggy
JD
jmtb02
FrostedMuffins
Peturo
Niki
DingoEatingFuzz
Newsdee
AuthorBlues
Void24
Vengeance
Ferretter
Glaiel
Paranoia
Defrag
Chris K.
jacklee
SkyLark

At 1/7/07 03:10 AM, jmtb02 wrote: That's okay Denvish. Better to get your work done :).

@ Fwe, I take that back. Your bot shoots crazy lasers, disqualified forever.

Pretty cool though. A+.

>:(

I wasn't expecting to get in, but if you have time afterwards, put me up against like, 10 of the winners' bots :P