Robowar is a great macintosh/windows freeware game. Yes it is free. The object is to create a robot that can stomp all the others into the ground. To do this you must program a robot in Robowar's own language which is easy to learn. The possiblities are endless with 28 different options of hardware for your robot. That is aside from the actual programming which is NEVER the same. There are tournaments held almost every month to put your robot(s) to the test. Want to become a Robowarrior? Here is my suggestion.
http://code.google.com/p/robodrome/ There's still a lot of work to do (features, UI, code cleanup), but you can build robots, and they fight! There are
I guess my take on the whole idea is... RoboWar as we knew it and loved it was a wonderful game, but as it was I think it was very much "played out". People
... Actually, I think RoboWar could perhaps be done quite nicely in HTML5 using <canvas>. Would be interesting to try that. Responding here to Paul, the other
I have a continuing but dormant interest in at some point more or less rewriting Robowar with Qt or something like that. I'm not under any illusions that