First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition

Re:First Robotics Competition: An International High-School ... by jaredandrews on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:32PM (#22827891)

I have been hoping to find a multiplayer coding game to play with my FIRST students during this time. Googling "multiplayer coding game" yields many results, but none of the ones I have tried so far have been satisfactory. Ideally it would be more of a sandbox than a game, with little robots you can control.

Would appreciate any recommendations.

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Re:First Robotics Competition: An International High-School ... by Doxin on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:26AM (#22832325)

You should probably have a look at grobots[0]

It includes both "hardware design" and programming. Hardware design in the form of balancing power usage vs capability. A big honking amount of solar panels is convenient, but then the mass of your grobot increases and you need a bigger more power hungry engine too. Software design in the form of a small but very capable stack based language.

One of the fun parts about grobots is you get more than one robot and cooperation between your robots is pretty important! There's a fair few published robots, ranging from simple algea-tactics (Just sit there and photosynthize) to bee-like swarms with workers and queens to stationary robots with big cannons that depend on a small and nimble scout to pick out targets at a distance.

[0] http://grobots.sourceforge.net/

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Re:First Robotics Competition: An International High-School ... by acomjean on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:52PM (#22828481)

its not real robots. You build software robots and put them in an arena to battle other robots.

Its an old site (java and .net), but it appears to still be going.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-robocode/index....

https://robocode.sourceforge.io/

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Re:First Robotics Competition: An International High-School ... by nomadluap on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:45PM (#22827978)

Minecraft with the OpenComputers[1] mod might fit your requirements. It adds computers and robots into Minecraft that are programmable with Lua.

[1]: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/opencomputers

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Re:First Robotics Competition: An International High-School ... by sudosysgen on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:49PM (#22828011)

ComputerCraft works well too, and there are a lot of interesting extensions.

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Re:First Robotics Competition: An International High-School ... by __initbrian__ on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:35PM (#22827920)

Probably not what you're looking for, but pretty interesting. TwoSigma has the Halite AI challenge where people submit competitive bots[0]. I've wondered if you can spin up your own server and just compete with friends

[0] https://halite.io/

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