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droidbattles(6)

droidbattles6

A programming game

Usage

droidbattles

droidbattles -textmode [-assemble botm] [-check configfile] [-loadconfig configfile] [-battle] [-normal] [-survival] [-deathmatch] [-team num] [-xsize size] [-ysize size] [-numfights num] [-maxrounds max] [-bot botn]

Overview

droidbattles is a programming game. You design and program bots (in an asm-like language) in order to make it better then anyone elses bot. You then run the bots in a battle simulation, where they try to kill each other.

Options

droidbattles is usually ran without any options.

-textmode

Don't run the GUI. None of the other options have any effect if this isn't given.

-assemble botm

Assemble the bot source file botm into a bot file.

-check configfile

Checks the integrity of a configuration file.

-loadconfig configfile

Use a different configuration for the battle.

-battle

Run a battle.

-normal

Set the battle mode to normal. This is the default.

-survival

Set the battle mode to survival.

-deathmatch

Set the battle mode to deathmatch.

-team num

Make the following bots to belong to team num. Must be a number between 1 and 4.

-xsize size
-ysize size

Defines the size of the arena. size must be larger than 8192 and smaller than 65535. If omitted, the default size of 32768 is used.

-numfights num

Fight num fights.

-maxrounds max

Allow a fight to last at most max rounds. If omitted, the default value of 6000 is used.

-bot botn

Use bot botn in the fight(s).

History

  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny): the text shown here
  • Debian 4.0 (Etch)

Author

droidbattles was written by Andreas Agorander <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Kari Pahula <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From droidbattles 1.0.6-6 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.