The site is not just "down", it's been shut down: Well, that was a fun journey, but my role in it ends here. Due to server costs of both money and time, I've decided to pass on the project to anyone who wants to take it up. The source code for the server can be found here: http://robotgame.org/static/robot.tar.gz The game was always open-sourced anyway (/brandonhsiao/rgkit on Github), so if you want to build your own server, that's cool too. You'll probably do a better job than I did. That was a fun month of my life, but I've decided to move on to other projects. The IRC channel is now down, of course, but you can still find robot gamers at /r/robotgame. Thanks in particular to everyone who hung out in the IRC channel for making the experience far more fun than I had expected. On 8 December 2013 13:26, Harry Percival <harry.percival@gmail.com> wrote:
For anyone that attended the London Python Dojo last week, here's the code for all the robots: https://github.com/hjwp/ldnpydojorobots
For anyone that didn't, check out http://robotgame.org/ (site is currently down, sadly, but i'm sure will be back up soon). It's a fun site where you program a robot AI in Python, and then you can submit it for a deathmatch of a team of your robots against someone else's...
(while trying to find info about why the site was down, i found out it has its own subreddit. cool. http://www.reddit.com/r/robotgame)
(i accidentally the test kit. If anyone has a copy and wants to add it to the repo, pull request away, then ppl can have a play even while the site is down...)
*Oh, incidentally, I can't remember if I mentioned during the Dojo, but I'm writing a book, it's nearing completion, and I'm just dying to get a few more people to read it and suggest improvements before it ships off to be printed. More info at http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com <http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com>. There is, and always will be, a complete, free, CC-licensed version available.*
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