GNU Robots

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name = GNU Robots



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author = Jim Hall
developer = Bradley Smith, Jim Hall
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latest release version = 1.2.0
latest release date = release date|2008|08|03
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genre = Programming game
license = GNU General Public License
website = http://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/

GNU Robots is a computer game for programmers. The goal is to guide a robot simulation around a maze, consuming food, avoiding baddies, and collecting as many prizes as possible in the process. However, the player cannot control the robot once the game begins; the robot acts according to a Scheme script previously written by the player.

Scheme's inherent simplicity and the supplied example scripts makes it easy to get started.

GNU Robots was originally written by Jim Hall, but he no longer works on it. Tim Northover then took over as lead. It is now being developed by Bradley Smith who recently took over the project. The game uses GNU Guile to interpret the Scheme instructions which must be stored in a file.

Previously the executable was named "robots", but this was recently changed to "gnurobots" to avoid clashing with other programs.

See also

*GNU Project
*Programming game

External links

* [http://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/ GNU Robots homepage]