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Hello,

Today I tried the game Robocode. I think the game concept is excellent! Ever since I was a child, I have always loved tank/robot games. I'm not a child anymore, and even if that's not the reason, I don't play that much games anymore. I like to program things, right now I'm trying to learn C++. Put these two things together, and you have a programming game.

There are, of course, different kind of programming games. In Robocode, you program a robot (in Java) to battle other robots in an arena. I didn't try to code my own robot, I have just watched when sample robots battle.

Now, to the important part. Why did I write this thread? I want a good programming game for KDE! Right, Robocode is OS independent, but there are some things that I dislike. First, it's written in Java, and I've never really liked Java. Secondly, the robots can only be programmed using Java.

Are there anyone interessed to develop a new programming game? If there is, I would be very happy. But I'm afraid I can't do much myself. I still havn't learned much C++, my time is very limited (I guess that goes for the most people), and my English is very bad. But I would be happy if I could do something, e.g. beta testing and add suggestions.

If you're interessed, please write in this thread. You can also add suggestions, that you would like to see in the game etc.

My wishlist:

• Mutiple language support (C, C++, Java, Ruby, ...)
  
• Really nice interface, good graphics
  
• Good and balanced battling system - it should be fun to watch even if you don't have a robot!
  
• Good sample robots, and good documention
  
• Maybe a tutorial? "Create you first robot"
  
• Multiplayer? (Network/Internet) - with Tournaments?
  
• more to be added...
  

Thanks for reading this. There aren't really any reasons why I want it to KDE, it's just my favorite desktop. But the game doesn't have to be in Qt.

Nope. But I've checked the screenshots, and I can say that the graphics aren't very impressive. Well, maybe the graphics aren't that important, but still I wouldn't mind some eye candy.

EDIT: But maybe it's easier to improve the current game's graphic instead of developing a new game?